Cagle Ex Rel. Estate of Butler v. Sutherland

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that a court approved a consent decree requiring hourly checks as a means to remedy unconstitutional conditions in a jail
• finding a 100-minute gap between checks, which violated jail policy, did not constitute deliberate indifference
• consent decrees often go beyond constitutional minimum requirements, and do not 12 create or expand rights
• “[I]n a prisoner suicide case. . .[t]he deliberate indifference standard ‘requires a strong likelihood rather than a mere possibility that the self-infliction of harm will occur.’”
• a 100-minute gap between checks, which violated jail policy, did not constitute deliberate indifference
• “A prison custodian is not the guarantor of a prisoner's safety.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).