Daskalea v. District of Columbia

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that \the jury had more than sufficient evidence upon which to base its finding of deliberate indifference\
• concluding that “the D.C. Court of Appeals has given no hint that it would permit an award of punitive damages in” a deliberate indifference case
• holding a “ ‘paper’ policy cannot insulate a municipality from liability where there is evidence ... that the municipality was deliberately indifferent to the policy’s violation”
• finding an Eighth Amendment violation when corrections officer forced inmate to perform drunken striptease
• upholding a jury verdict against the District for violating Section 1983 where the individual prison guards were not named as defendants
• discussing how female prisoner had her underwear confiscated as “ ‘contraband’ ” and was placed in solitary confinement without a mattress as a result of talking to prison officials about the sexual assaults and harassment to which guards had subjected her

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).