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Failure to Protect States Claim

The court of appeals for the fifth circuit held that a district court erred in dismissing as frivolous a suit by a prisoner claiming his eighth amendment rights were violated when they failed to protect him from attack by other prisoners. Billy Horton, a Texas state prisoner, was assaulted by ...

 

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