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HOFFMAN v. PRESTON

No. 20-15396.

26 F.4th 1059 (2022)

Marcellas HOFFMAN, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. PRESTON, Defendant-Appellee, and D. Coyle; Matevoisain, Warden; L. T. Hayes; Fields, SIA Investigator, Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed February 28, 2022.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Laura E. Dolbow (argued) and David M. Zionts , Covington & Burling LLP, Washington, D.C.; Samuel Weiss , Rights Behind Bars, Washington, D.C.; for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Philip A. Scarborough (argued), Assistant United States Attorney; McGregor W. Scott , United States Attorney; United States Attorney's Office, Sacramento, California; for Defendant-Appellee.

Before: Kim McLane Wardlaw and Carlos T. Bea, Circuit Judges, and Lee H. Rosenthal, District Judge.

OPINION

Marcellas Hoffman, a federal prisoner, alleges that a correctional officer, Timothy Preston, labeled him a snitch to other prisoners, offered them a bounty to assault Hoffman, and failed to protect him from the predictable assault by another prisoner. Hoffman sued Preston for violating his Eighth...

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