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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.