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Qualified Immunity Denied to Guard Who Failed to Provide Safe Transport

by David M. Reutter

The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals held on March 4, 2008 that a guard was not entitled to qualified immunity concerning a prisoner’s claim that the guard failed to provide safe transport, violating the prisoner’s Eighth Amendment rights.

The civil rights action was brought by Missouri ...

 

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