Board of Com'rs v. Cowan

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that Eighth Amendment “requires prison officials to take reasonable measures to guarantee the safety of inmates in their custody”
• noting that “a party may not create an issue of fact by submitting an affidavit in opposition to a summary judgment motion that, by omission or addition, contradicts the affiant’s previous deposition testimony,” where no issue of fact had existed before the submission
• \factual issues created solely by an affidavit crafted to oppose a summary judgment motion are not 'genuine' issues for trial\ (quoting Perma Research, 410 F.2d at 578)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).