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213891P.pdf 03/03/2023 David Hodges v. Minnesota Dept. Corrections
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 21-3891
U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota
[PUBLISHED] [Colloton, Author, with Kelly and Kobes, Circuit Judges]
Prisoner case - Prisoner civil rights. In action alleging the defendants
violated plaintiff's Eighth Amendment rights by failing to protect him
from a fellow inmate, the district court granted defendants summary
judgment on the ground plaintiff had presented insufficient evidence to
show that any prison official was deliberately indifferent to a
substantial risk of serious harm to plaintiff. The district court did not
err in finding that the evidence was insufficient to show that any of the
defendant officials on the prison's incompatibility committee subjectively
concluded that plaintiff faced a substantial risk of serious harm and then
failed to respond reasonably to it; given the absence of a showing that
the defendant members of the prison's incompatibility committee were
deliberately indifferent, plaintiff did not make a sufficient showing that
either the warden or the assistant commissioner of the Department of
Corrections was deliberately indifferent by deferring to the established
process and policy. Judge Kelly, concurring.