Curtis Shields v. Thomas Dart

How courts have described this case

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• holding that officers’ fifteen-to-twenty-minute delay in arriving at scene of attack was “troubling” but did not constitute deliberate indifference
• holding that officer who did not “command . . . detainees to stop the attack” and instead “monitor[ed] the fight from the secure area until other officers arrived” was not deliberately indifferent
• discussing claim that prison officials had deliberately ignored threats to pretrial detainee’s safety after guard, speaking in earshot of other prisoners, had misidentified him as leader of Black Disciples
• upholding district court’s finding that prison guard was not deliberately indifferent to risk posed by a fight because she had “[taken] [] steps to intervene by promptly calling for back-up and monitoring the fight from the secure area until other officers arrived”
• correctional officers who are present during a violent altercation between prisoners are not deliberately indifferent for acting “with a due regard for their safety”
• no deliberate indifference where officer observed fight, called for backup, and monitored the fight for fifteen to twenty minutes before intervening with other officers to stop the fight

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).