Brown v. North Carolina Department of Corrections

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a reasonable jury could find deliberate indifference if an officer “know[s] the olin inmate faces a serious danger to his safety and they could avert the danger easily, yet they fail 12 to do so”
• observing that liberal construction of a complaint is particularly appropriate where a pro se plaintiff alleges civil rights violations
• explaining that uncontested “significant physical injuries” ested the first prong of the deliberate indifference standard
• explaining that “the test is whether [the prison officials] know the plaintiff inmate faces a serious danger to his safety and they could avert the danger easily yet they fail to do so”
• noting that pro se inmates’ complaints are entitled to particularly liberal construction
• involving an inmate assaulted after being placed in a vulnerable position by guards who knew of a grudge held by another inmate

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