PRICE v. SASSER

No. 94-6886.

65 F.3d 342 (1995)

Larry PRICE, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. James M. SASSER; Ted Tadlock; Leroy Locklear, Jail Administrator of Wayne County; Board of Commissioners of Wayne County; County of Wayne, Defendants-Appellees, and Wayne County Jail; Wayne County Sheriff Department, Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided September 19, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: James A. Crouch, North Carolina Prisoner Legal Services, Inc., Raleigh, NC, for appellant. Thomas M. Van Camp, Van Camp, West, Hayes & Meacham, P.A., Carthage, NC, for appellees.

Before ERVIN, Chief Judge, MURNAGHAN, Circuit Judge, and WILLIAMS, United States District Judge for the District of Maryland, sitting by designation.


Affirmed by published opinion. Chief Judge ERVIN wrote the opinion, in which Judge MURNAGHAN and Judge WILLIAMS joined.

OPINION

ERVIN, Chief Judge:

Larry Wade Price, a prisoner who was assaulted by two other inmates at the Wayne County Jail, appeals the dismissal of his § 1983 action against Deputy Sheriff Ted Tadlock. Price alleges that Tadlock violated his Eighth Amendment rights by exhibiting deliberate indifference to a substantial risk...

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