Opinion ID: 736750
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Text: 3 Shortly after he entered the Nevada prison system in 1988, Jacobs filed a civil rights suit against prison officials, in which he eventually prevailed. The present suit alleges new violations since he filed his first suit. 4 According to Jacobs' uncontradicted trial evidence, prison officials have repeatedly transferred him into potentially dangerous situations. This first happened after a disciplinary hearing in December 1988, when he was transferred to Nevada State Prison (NSP) and housed in the same population as Eugene Davis, an Aryan Warrior who had killed Jacobs' brother in prison less than a year earlier. Prison officials moved Jacobs two weeks later, but then transferred him back to a prison where Davis was incarcerated (Ely State Prison, or ESP) for the second time in October 1989. There, he was placed in a cell located directly below Davis' cell: both cells accessed the same recreation areas. After a few days, Jacobs was moved away from Davis and then out of ESP entirely. Four months later he was transferred back to ESP, and thus into the same population as Davis, for the third time. This placement lasted only a week, but he was transferred to ESP for a fourth time in January 1991, where he remained for several weeks until he was moved again. Finally, in April 1992, he was transferred to NSP again. Although Davis was not incarcerated at NSP at that time, the Aryan Warriors were a strong, violent presence at NSP. Soon after that transfer, Jacobs was attacked and stabbed by two white inmates who asked him whether he was investigating his brother's murder. According to Jacobs' evidence, the attackers were Aryan Warriors and associates of Davis. 5 Throughout this sequence of transfers, Jacobs repeatedly told prison officials that it would be dangerous to house him with Davis, and prison officials repeatedly noted that there was an enemy situation and even that there was a Special Important enemy situation. They also concluded, at some point, that Davis had not acted alone when he killed Jacobs' brother. 6 Jacobs also introduced evidence to show that he was tried twice for a single alleged disciplinary infraction after a prison riot. The committee found Jacobs not guilty at the first hearing. A prison official then declared the committee's decision void, convened a new committee, tried Jacobs again, found him guilty, and sentenced him to disciplinary segregation with loss of statutory good-behavior time. 1 7 Jacobs also offered or tried to offer evidence of a variety of other incidents to prove his retaliation claim. 2 8 At the close of Jacobs' case, defendants made a Rule 50 JMOL motion. Without addressing Jacobs' First Amendment or conspiracy claims, the district court granted JMOL.