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· 9/29/2004

Dennis W. Christopher v. Edward Buss

Citations

  • 384 F.3d 879
  • 59 Fed. R. Serv. 3d 893
  • 2004 U.S. App. LEXIS 20497
  • 2004 WL 2173323

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • finding that a “protrusive lip” on a softball field maybe hazardous but the condition did not amount to objectively serious to implicate the Eighth Amendment
  • describing a failure to protect claim which is based on the conditions of the prison
  • “the risk of being hit by a softball as a result of a hazardous field condition is not one that ‘today’s society chooses not to tolerate’”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Posner, Easterbrook, Kanne

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