David Arlan Bailey v. Frank Wood, John Doe

How courts have described this case

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• deciding that attempts to house inmates separately are affirmative steps that weigh against deliberate indifference
• concluding that entrusting staff members to address an assault risk is a reasonable way for a warden to respond to a threat
• approving jury instruction which read “[a] pervasive risk of harm exists when violent assaults occur with sufficient frequency that the plaintiff is put in reasonable fear of his safety, and prisoner [sic] officials ... should be reasonably apprised of the need for protective measures.”
• pervasive risk of harm exists when violent assaults occur with sufficient frequency that plaintiff is put in reasonable fear of his safety
• jury instruction on “pervasive risk”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).