Lyons

MEMORANDUM *

Lyons brought this § 1983 action in the district court alleging that various prison officials violated his Eighth Amendment rights by failing to protect him from harm. The district court granted summary judgment to all defendants except Baughman, to whom the court denied qualified immunity. Baughman filed this interlocutory appeal. We have jurisdiction to review only the denial of summary judgment to Baughman, and we must construe all disputed facts in Lyons’ favor. 1 See Jeffers v. Gomez, 267 F.3d 895, 903 (9th Cir.2001).

The Eighth Amendment imposes a duty on prison officials to protect inmates from harm at the hands of other inmates. See Farmer v. Brennan, 511 U.S. 825, 833 , 114 S.Ct. 1970 , 128 L.Ed.2d 811 (1994). Under Farmer , once an official becomes subjectively aware of a serious risk of harm to an inmate, the official violates the inmate’s Eighth Amendment rights if he disregards that risk. Id. at 837 , 114 S.Ct. 1970 ; see also Estate of Ford v. Ramirez-Palmer, 301 F.3d 1043, 1050 (9th Cir.2002) (stating that an officer would violate the Eighth Amendment if he knew that an inmate was acting out dangerously with cellmates or otherwise posed a threat but…