KNIGHT v. GILL

No. 92-6068.

999 F.2d 1020 (1993)

Wilford Allen KNIGHT, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Gary GILL; Stephen T. Smith; and John Wigginton, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided July 29, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard Heideman, Robert M. Stevenson (argued and briefed), Heideman & Cardin, Roya A. Ghazi, Marc H. Levy, Louisville, KY, for plaintiff-appellee.

Suzanne D. Cordery (argued and briefed), Office of the Gen. Counsel, Corrections Cabinet, Frankfort, KY, for defendants-appellants.

Before: KENNEDY and SILER, Circuit Judges; and CONTIE, Senior Circuit Judge.


CONTIE, Senior Circuit Judge.

Defendants Gary Gill, Stephen T. Smith, and John Wigginton appeal the district court's order denying their motion for summary judgment in this 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action initiated by inmate Wilford Knight. We vacate the district court's order and grant summary judgment to the defendants for the following reasons.

I.

On December 9, 1989, plaintiff-appellee Wilford Allen Knight ("Knight"), an inmate at the Luther Luckett...

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