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85 F.3d 616

Docket No. 95-7829.

Liston v. Lm Saunders

Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals

Submitted: April 15, 1996. Decided: April 29, 1996.

Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals · decided 1996-04-29

Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))

Relies on Randall A. Holler v. Shirley S. Chater, Commissioner of Social Security

Opinion by Per Curiam · Decided 1996-04-29

NOTICE: Fourth Circuit Local Rule 36(c) states that citation of unpublished dispositions is disfavored except for establishing res judicata, estoppel, or the law of the case and requires service of copies of cited unpublished dispositions of the Fourth Circuit.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia, at Roanoke. Samuel G. Wilson, District Judge. (CA-94-320-R)

Philipe Michel Liston, Appellant Pro Se. Susan Campbell Alexander, Assistant Attorney General, Richmond, VA, for Appellees.

W.D.Va.

AFFIRMED AS MODIFIED.

Before ERVIN and MOTZ, Circuit Judges, and CHAPMAN, Senior Circuit Judge.

PER CURIAM:

¶1

Appellant appeals from the district court's order granting judgment as a matter of law, pursuant to Fed.R.Civ.P. 50, to two of the three Defendants on his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (1988) claim. Liston alleged in his complaint that the Defendants' failure to protect him from a violent attack by another inmate constituted cruel and unusual punishment and a denial of due process. We have reviewed the record and the proceedings before the district court and find no reversible error. Finding that the district court intended its order to be final and to dispose of the claim against all three Defendants, we affirm the district court's order as modified to extend to all Defendants named in the Complaint. We dispense with oral argument because the facts and legal contentions are adequately presented in the materials before the court and argument would not aid the decisional process.

AFFIRMED AS MODIFIED

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