LAKIN v. BARNHART

Nos. 13-2210, 13-2211.

758 F.3d 66 (2014)

David LAKIN, Plaintiff, Appellant, v. Patricia BARNHART, in her individual capacity as Warden of the Maine State Prison & Martin Magnusson, in his individual capacity as Commissioner, Maine Department of Corrections, Defendants, Appellees, John Doe, in his individual capacity as Unit Manager, Maine State Prison, Defendant. Gerard Landry, Plaintiff, Appellant, v. Patricia Barnhart, in her individual capacity as Warden of the Maine State Prison & Joseph Ponte, in his individual capacity as Commissioner, Maine Department of Corrections, Defendants, Appellees, John Doe, in his individual capacity as Unit Manager, Maine State Prison, Defendant.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

July 7, 2014.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Verne Paradie , for appellants.

James E. Fortin , Assistant Attorney General, with whom Janet T. Mills , Maine Attorney General, was on brief, for appellees.

Before THOMPSON, Circuit Judge, SOUTER, Associate Justice, and KAYATTA, Circuit Judge.


SOUTER, Associate Justice.

The appellants in these consolidated cases, David Lakin and Gerard Landry, are inmates in the Maine State Prison. Their actions charge the appellees, officials in the Maine Department of Corrections, with deliberate indifference to a substantial risk that inmates would use padlocks issued to them by the Prison to assault fellow inmates such as the appellants. See Farmer v. Brennan, 511 U.S. 825, 114...

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