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WILLIAMS v. BURTON

No. 90-7403.

943 F.2d 1572 (1991)

Michael D. WILLIAMS, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Larry W. BURTON, James H. Deloach, Kenneth Jones, Guy Hunt, John B. Sanderson, Dr. Morgan, J. Frondorf, Morris Thigpen, Wilby Wallace, Tommy Herring, Paul Herring, Tom Allen, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

October 18, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard J. Ebbinghouse, Gordon, Silberman, Wiggins & Childs, Birmingham, Ala., for plaintiff-appellant.

Horace N. Lynn, Alabama Dept. of Corrections, Montgomery, Ala., for defendants-appellees.

C. Michael McInnish, McInnish, Bright & Chambless, Montgomery, Ala., for Dr. Morgan and J. Frondorf.

Before EDMONDSON, Circuit Judge, RONEY, Senior Circuit Judge, and PITTMAN, Senior District Judge.

PER CURIAM:

Plaintiff, Michael D. Williams, appeals from a judgment in favor of defendants in his suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Williams, an Alabama prison inmate, alleged that prison officials and medical personnel violated his Eighth Amendment rights to be free from cruel and unusual punishment after he was kept in four-point restraints for approximately twenty-eight and one-half hours. We affirm.

Plaintiff was a state prison inmate for seven years assigned...

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