Barkes Ex Rel. Barkes v. First Correctional Medical, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that deliber‐ ate indifference standard “for imposing supervisory liability based on an Eighth Amendment violation is consistent with Iqbal” and collecting cases
• holding that incarcerated persons have the “right to the proper implementation of adequate suicide prevention protocols”
• recognizing supervisory liability for failure to implement adequate policies to prevent known risks to inmate safety
• holding a plaintiff must allege “the constitutional injury was caused by the failure to implement the supervisory procedure.”
• explaining that supervisors may be liable under § 1983 if they established and maintained an unconstitutional policy or custom, directed others to violate the plaintiff’s rights, or had knowledge of and acquiesced in their subordinates’ conduct
• explaining requirements for supervisory liability in Section 1983 claim and describing “two general ways in which a supervisor-defendant may be liable for unconstitutional acts undertaken by subordinates”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).