Opinion ID: 2975244
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: Harold White

Text: Accepting the facts as pleaded by Williams, we hold that Williams has not alleged facts sufficient to support the legal conclusion that defendant Harold White acted unreasonably in the face of a known risk to Williams’s health. White’s relationship to Williams’s treatment is tenuous. White was the second respondent to Williams’s appeal from his first grievance (stemming from his - 16 - No. 05-2678 Williams v. McLemore et al. refusal to be cuffed in standard handcuffs). In his response to Williams’s grievance appeal, White recounted Williams’s request for protection from the JMF facility and stated that Williams “refused to come out of [his] cell and Deputy Anderson concluded that [Williams’s] refusal of interview indicated that [Williams] did not wish to proceed with the process and should be returned to JMF.” Williams alleges that White “negat[ed] the true facts which involved [Williams] not being able to attend the Jan[uary] 15, 1998, S.C.C. interview” and “did not remedy Defendant Anderson’s failure to afford Plaintiff protective custody, given the process was discriminatory in nature, by how his disability was used to preclude him from the S.C.C. interview, and instead, Defendant White upheld the violations.” Although Williams has alleged that White had subjective knowledge of Williams’s alleged threats, he has not set forth pleadings that could support the legal conclusion that White acted unreasonably in disregarding the risk. White’s responsibility was to respond to Williams’s grievance; White determined that Officers Warr and Doe acted in a manner consistent with departmental policy in refusing to provide alternative handcuffs, noting that without “medical detail” the guards “would be subject to disciplinary proceedings for breaching security.” Williams has not alleged that White had any authority to, or played any role in the decision to, order Williams’s return to JMF. Williams cannot show that White’s actions or omissions within his limited role violated clearly established constitutional law. We therefore reverse the district court’s denial of summary judgment with respect to Harold White.