Franklin v. Young, No. 14-2151 (8th Cir. 2015)
Annotate this CaseFranklin claimed that Young, an assistant caseworker at the facility where Franklin was incarcerated, violated the Eighth Amendment by failing to protect him from sexual assault by another inmate by being deliberately indifferent to a substantial risk that he would be sexually assaulted by inmate Mosley. The district court denied Young’s motion for summary judgment on the ground of qualified immunity, holding that factual disputes prevented the court from determining whether Young violated Franklin’s rights. The Eighth Circuit dismissed an interlocutory appeal. A district court's summary judgment order denying qualified immunity may not be appealed “insofar as [it] determines whether or not the pretrial record sets forth a genuine issue of fact for trial.” Essentially, Young argued that the district court erred in finding a genuine dispute of material fact over whether he violated Franklin’s Eighth Amendment rights. By challenging the district court's finding on sufficiency of the evidence, Young was asking the court to engage in “the time-consuming task of reviewing a factual controversy about intent.”
Court Description: Brooks, Author, with Murphy and Shepherd, Circuit Judges] Prisoner case - Prisoner civil rights. In action alleging defendant, an assistant case worker at plaintiff's facility failed to protect him from sexual assault by another inmate, the court lacked jurisdiction to review the district court's order denying defendant's motion for summary judgment based on qualified immunity as the appeal is essentially a challenge to the district court's finding on the sufficiency of the evidence and this is the type of controversy the Supreme court has concluded should not be subject to an interlocutory appeal.
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