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Nature of Suit Code: 555
Nature of Suit: Prisoner - Prison Condition
Cause of Action: 42:1983 Prisoner Civil Rights

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

EASTERN DISTRICT OF ARKANSAS 

NORTHERN DIVISION 

CHRISTOPHER DON PENNINGTON 

ADC #149290 

v. No. 1:19-cv-49-DPM 

LOMAN JOHNSON, Captain, Food Prep 

Supervisor, ADC Grimes Unit; and 

LARRY BAILEY, Maintenance 

Coordinator, Grimes Unit 

ORDER 

PLAINTIFF 

DEFENDANTS 

On de novo review, the Court declines the recommendation, NQ 11, 

and sustains Pennington's objections, NQ 12. FED. R. CIV. P. 72(b)(3). 

The recommendation is correct: Pennington's second amended 

complaint didn't include enough facts to state a claim against Johnson 

or Bailey. But in his objections, Pennington says that although other 

inmates and several ADC employees told Johnson and Bailey about the 

hazardous power outlet in the months leading up to Pennington's 

injury, both defendants failed to act on that information. Read 

together, the second amended complaint and objections state a 

plausible deliberate indifference claim against Johnson and Bailey. 

The Court therefore returns this case to the Magistrate Judge for service 

on that claim. 

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A warning: In the future, Pennington must include all the facts 

and arguments he wants to put forward in his initial filing, rather than 

waiting to raise them in an objection. 

So Ordered. 

{/ D.P. Marshall Jr. 

United States District Judge 

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