Dale Walker v. Charles Rowe and David Sandahl

How courts have described this case

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• reversing jury verdict in favor of prison guards and widows of guards hurt and No. 20-1279 9 killed in prison uprising even if supervisors were grossly neg- ligent in failing to protect against violence by prisoners
• “grossly negligent” failure, which defendants “knew ... increased the risk of injury” but “after full deliberation did nothing”
• due process clause does not afford prison guards who choose line of employment the right to protection from prison riots
• “[M]ost provisions of the bill of rights do not forbid simple neglect, and the Constitution does not make supervisory officeholders vicariously liable for the acts and omissions of their subordinates.”
• though plaintiff may plead a claim either way, “if he pleads what is naturally an official capacity suit as an individual capacity suit, he avoids the eleventh amendment problem but confronts a fatal problem—inability to prove personal responsibility”
• rejecting, pre-DeShaney, the type of affirmative duty claim here advanced

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).