Charles Buford Stewart v. Aileene Love, Warden, and Michael Dutton

How courts have described this case

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• reasoning that, “[h]ad no action whatsoever been taken to protect the plaintiff, the court would be inclined to allow this action to proceed to a full hearing.”
• noting “mere negligence” is insufficient “to give rise to culpability under the eighth amendment”
• negligence for failure to protect from assault by other inmates is not actionable under eighth amendment
• negligence for failure to protect from assault by other inmates is not actionable under eighth amendment
• a single, isolated attack was insufficient to state a failure to protect claim
• warden must play a personal role in the constitutional deprivation

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).