Antonio E. Blades v. Tim Schuetzle Kevin Arthaud Paula Bader Donald Redmann Cordell Stromme Chad Nelson

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• holding that an inmate’s own statements that a prisoner posed no risk to him would bar his failure-to- protect claim
• concluding that prison officials did not deliberately disregard a risk because they made efforts to transfer the victim before the attack, even though their efforts failed due to their own “lack of coordination”
• stating that “the use of racially derogatory language, unless it is pervasive or severe enough to amount to racial harassment, will not by itself violate the fourteenth amendment”
• explaining that the plaintiff’s “statements that [a fellow inmate] posed no risk of harm to him would furnish a bar to his claim even if preserved the defense here. See Wycoff v. Menke, 773 F.2d 983, 984 (8th Cir. 1985
• declaring, “we believe that the use of racially derogatory language, unless it is pervasive or severe enough to amount to racial harassment, will not by itself violate the [F]ourteenth [A]mendment.”
• “[T]he matter of deliberate indifference must be determined with regard to the relevant prison official’s knowledge at the time in question, not with hindsight’s perfect vision.” (internal marks omitted)

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