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· 9/24/2002

Bryan Case v. Rodney Ahitow

Citations

  • 301 F.3d 605

How courts have described this case

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

  • concluding that attack causing permanent hearing loss could support finding that defendant-guards failed to protect plaintiff-inmate
  • finding evidence of deliberate indifference when \the defendants knew that [one inmate] posed a serious danger to [another inmate] and they could have averted the danger easily\
  • discussing evidence of guard offering to cover for prisoner who planned to attack another prisoner
  • finding evidence of deliberate indifference when “the defendants knew that [one inmate] posed a serious danger to [another inmate] and they could have averted the danger easily”
  • stating that “‘[i]f his story is true . . . ’ -- [P]laintiff is entitled to a trial, but of course the trier of fact may disbelieve his evidence, all or most of which comes from inmates, who tend not to be highly credible witnesses.”

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Judges: Posner, Ripple, Williams

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