held that Civil Rights Act claims were properly stated under theory of supervisory liability where director of state’s department of corrections was allegedly responsible for formulating rules and regulations for facility at which plaintiff-prisoner was beaten by correction officers
How later courts described this case
- held that Civil Rights Act claims were properly stated under theory of supervisory liability where director of state’s department of corrections was allegedly responsible for formulating rules and regulations for facility at which plaintiff-prisoner was beaten by correction officers
- beating of inmate in state correctional facility after conviction
Written by the judges who cited it.
The opinion
CHAMBERS, Circuit Judge
(dissenting) :
I do not believe that the Supreme Court has yet commanded us to go as far as the majority opinion goes in giving a prisoner the right to sue his keepers. Therefore, I dissent.