Blackmon v. Sutton

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• observing that the defendants “were aware those [mental health] problems [of the plaintiff] grew worse during his stay”
• stating that pretrial detainees are owed “at least the same standard of care prison officials owe convicted inmates”
• noting that in Sanders, “[t]his court upheld the restraint on the ground that the detainee had already proven himself a security threat to other inmates and the restraints were designed to address legitimate safety concerns”
• noting that in Sanders, “[t]his court upheld the restraint on the ground that the detainee had already proven himself a security threat to other inmates and the restraints were designed to address legitimate safety concerns”
• finding that prison mental health professionals were not entitled to summary judgment on qualified-immunity grounds where they failed to provide a pretrial detainee with “any meaningful mental health care, despite his obvious need for it”
• explaining that liability may attach when an expressed intent to punish exists

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).