071591P.pdf   03/07/2008  William Irving  v.  Warren Cressey
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  07-1591
   U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri - Jefferson City   
   [PUBLISHED] [Wollman, Author, with Benton, Circuit Judge, and
   Doty, District Judge]
   Prisoner case - prisoner civil rights. Prison officials were not entitled to
   qualified immunity on plaintiff's allegations that they purposefully
   opened his cell door to permit another inmate to beat him, as plaintiff's
   claims established he suffered more than de minimis injuries and the
   officials' actions portrayed unjustifiable, actionable inmate-endangering
   conduct; defendant Briggance was not entitled to qualified immunity on
   claims he threatened to kill plaintiff in retaliation for his litigation;
   defendants Neff and Cressy were entitled to qualified immunity on claims
   they allegedly made death threats as those threats, while reprehensible
   and unjustified, were not objectively credible; defendant Briggance was
   not entitled to qualified immunity on plaintiff's claim that he falsely
   labeled him a snitch in hopes other prisoners would harm or kill him, as a
   reasonable prison guard would have know that to label plaintiff a snitch
   would violate his constitutional right to protection from harm from other
   prisoner.