Federal Case

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• noting that failing to place a suicidal inmate in a safe space can show deliberate indifference
• stating the placement of a suicidal inmate in a cell with exposed bars and a bed sheet is an unreasonable response to the inmate's serious medical needs, which violates the \common sense rule\
• “[O]fficials do not violate the Constitution when they negligently fail to diagnose a prisoner’s suicide risk.”
• “Once an official knows of a risk, the Eighth Amendment requires the official take reasonable measures to abate the risk.”
• “The jury could reasonably deduce that appellants recklessly disregarded that risk when they issued Coleman a bed sheet and placed him in a cell where they could not easily observe him.”
• “the collateral order doctrine does not apply . . . when a party complains that the district court should not have granted summary judgment based on qualified immunity”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).