Donnie R. Fisher v. Richard Lovejoy, Officer, 5893

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that deliberate indifference under the Fourteenth Amendment “requires more than a showing of negligent or even grossly negligent behavior”
• “The Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment . . . places a duty upon jail officials to protect pre-trial detainees from violence.”
• “The Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment ... places a duty upon jail officials to protect pre-trial detainees from violence.”
• “[N]ot every injury suffered by a detainee violates his rights. The Supreme Court has recognized that inmates are entitled to relief only when their injury is objectively serious . . . .”
• “Even if an official is found to have been aware that the plaintiff was at substantial risk of serious injury, he is free from liability if he responded to the situation in a reasonable manner.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).