Opinion ID: 2975244
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Heading: William Bailey

Text: - 17 - No. 05-2678 Williams v. McLemore et al. Defendant William Bailey, like White, has a tenuous relationship to Williams’s failure to protect claim. Bailey reviewed the first step response to Williams’s second filed grievance (stemming from a note that Williams gave prison officials in which he threatened to “get” his enemies at JMF, and for which he received a threatening behavior misconduct ticket), approving the grievance response, and indicating that Williams’s grievance appeal was denied.5 As with White, Bailey’s actions as pleaded by Williams do not violate clearly established constitutional law. Williams did not allege that Bailey had any authority to, or played any role in the decision to, order Williams’s return to JMF. Thus, Williams cannot show that Bailey acted unreasonably or disregarded the risk to Williams’s safety. We likewise reverse the district court’s denial of summary judgment with respect to William Bailey.