Duncan v. King's Administrator

How courts have described this case

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• finding that allegations of two separate instances in which the sheriff failed to investigate inmate deaths involving heat related illnesses could not be considered persistent and widespread
• concluding, for purposes of whether official policy or custom amounts to deliberate indifference, that sheriff's “failure to investigate two instances of heat related deaths cannot be considered to be persistent and widespread”
• “[A] reasonable jury could determine that [a state official’s] failure to appropriately mitigate the inmates’ severe heat exposure directly, affirmatively caused [plaintiff’s] injuries that w[ere] caused by heat exposure.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).