Walker v. Norris

U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit · Decided 1990-11-01

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RALPH B. GUY, Jr., Circuit Judge. In this action involving 42 U.S.C. § 1983 claims for eighth and fourteenth amendment substantive due process violations as well as a state law negligence claim stemming from the stabbing death of prison inmate Jerry Fails, the defendants appeal from a judgment entered on a jury verdict in favor of plaintiff Jacqueline Walker, the administratrix of Fails’…

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