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TOWNSEND v. MURPHY

No. 17-2783.

898 F.3d 780 (2018)

Jacob James TOWNSEND, Plaintiff-Appellant v. Terry MURPHY, Water Treatment Supervisor, ADC Tucker Unit; Richard Romine, Water Treatment/Outside Maintenance Supervisor; David White, Warden, Tucker Unit, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Filed: July 31, 2018.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Counsel who presented argument on behalf of the appellant and appeared on the brief was Anthony Balkissoon , of Chicago, IL. The following attorney(s) appeared on the appellant brief; Amir H. Ali , of Washington, DC., Sarah Grady , of Chicago, IL.

Counsel who presented argument on behalf of the appellee Terry Murphy and appeared on the brief was Justin Byrum Hurst , of Hot Springs, AR. Counsel who presented argument on behalf of the appellees Richard Romine and David White and appeared on the brief was Robert Thomas James , AAG, of Little Rock, AR.

Before COLLOTON, SHEPHERD, and STRAS, Circuit Judges.

Jacob Townsend, an inmate at Arkansas's Tucker Unit prison, sued three prison officials for requiring him to work with deadly chlorine gas without proper training and safety gear. The district court granted summary judgment to the officials based on Townsend's failure to exhaust his administrative remedies. Because an administrative...

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