· 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’”
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Judges: Posner, Easterbrook, Kanne
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