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· 3/9/1987

Eastern Associated Coal Corp. v. Federal Mine Safety & Health Review Commission

Citations

  • 813 F.2d 639

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  • holding that suicide of prisoner in police custody was a foreseeable consequence under Nos. 06-3882/4206 United States v. Martinez Page 25 the circumstances and, therefore, not an independent intervening cause breaking the chain of proximate causation
  • stating that alleged violation of pretrial detainee’s Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment rights is governed by the “deliberate indifference” standard
  • stating that alleged violation of pretrial detainee’s Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment rights is governed by the “deliberate indifference” standard
  • stating that alleged violation of pretrial detainee’s Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment rights is governed by the “deliberate indifference” standard
  • deliberate indifference to prisoner’s serious medical needs amounts to cruel and unusual punishment and violates Eighth Amendment
  • deliberate indifference to a prisoner’s serious medical needs amounts to cruel and unusual punishment and violates the Eighth Amendment

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Judges: Chapman, Ervin, Sprouse

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