Curtis Arnold v. Patrick Jones C/o Blythe C/o Creeden C/o Scheers C/o Edwards C/o Whitson Lt. Olson

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• holding that outnumbered and unarmed officers were not required to physically intervene in a violent fight between inmates
• holding that “unarmed prison officials have no duty as a matter of law to physically intervene in a prison fight which may cause them serious injury or worsen the situation
• “[U]narmed prison officials have no duty as a matter of law to physically intervene in a prison fight which may cause them serious injury or worsen the situation[.]”
• inmate \ripped a three-foot metal support brace from a sink\ to use as weapon
• \[U]narmed prison officials have no duty as a matter of law to physically intervene in a prison fight which may cause them seri- ous injury or worsen the situation . . . .\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).