Eighth Circuit· 5/20/2014

Cody Walton v. Robert Dawson

Citations

752 F.3d 1109
2014 WL 2053835
2014 U.S. App. LEXIS 9304

How courts have described this case

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

recognizing that “sleep is critical to the human existence” and “conditions that prevent sleep have been held to violate the Eighth Amendment.”
holding that under the deliberate indifference standard, no liability attaches unless the prison official “knows disregards an excessive risk to inmate health and safety”
stating that “sleep is critical to human existence, and conditions that prevent sleep” may violate the constitution
stating that the Fourteenth Amendment gives state pretrial detainees “rights which are at least as great as the Eighth Amendment protections available to a convicted prisoner”
“violating an internal policy does not ipso facto violate the Constitution,” instead the focus is on whether the conduct violated the Constitution
characterizing as “immediate,” the one-minute delay before prison officials stopped a cellblock fight in another case

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Judges: Riley, Bye, Gruender

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