Bobby Fruit John Witham and Craig Rayburn v. Larry Norris, Warden M. Evans H. Rhodes W. Simmons Employees, Tucker Max. Security Unit, A.D.C.

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• observing that “‘common sense’ suggests that [prison officials] should have had knowledge that unprotected contact with human waste could cause disease”
• observing that “‘common sense’ suggests that [prison officials] should have had knowledge that unprotected contact with human waste could cause disease”
• observing that “‘common sense’ suggests that [prison officials] should have had knowledge that unprotected contact with human waste could cause disease”
• holding a warden’s “action in denying the administrative appeals of [the inmates’] disciplinary actions . . . clearly is sufficient to hold him liable” under a theory that the warden tacitly authorized the violative practices
• rejecting inmates’ argument that they had a constitutional right to be present during the district court civil proceedings
• explaining that “common sense” is relevant in deciding obviousness of risk

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).