Hamlet v. Hoxie
Pending petition
Docket No. |
Op. Below | Argument |
Opinion |
Vote |
Author |
Term |
23-7 |
11th Cir. |
TBD |
TBD |
TBD |
TBD |
TBD |
Issues: (1) Whether it is “clearly established” for purposes of qualified immunity that the Eighth Amendment bars a prison official from forcing a person with diabetes and open wounds to endure prolonged and unnecessary exposure to feces; and (2) whether the court should overrule Procunier v. Navarette and hold that qualified immunity under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 does not extend to a suit alleging that a prison guard subjected the plaintiff to unlawful conditions of confinement, because similar state officials were not immune from similar suits at common law.