Eric Smith v. Steve Brenoettsy, Lieutenant, John P. Whitley, Warden

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• dismissing an interlocutory appeal where there was a factual dispute regarding whether defendant prison officials were aware of the danger to the inmate’s safety
• showing of deliberate indifference requires proof that official was “both aware of facts from which the inference could be drawn that a substantial risk of serious harm [i.e., an actionable constitutional violation] exist[ed], and he also [drew] the inference”
• \[T]he official must ... be aware of facts from which the inference could be drawn that a substantial risk of serious harm exists ....\ (internal quotation marks and citations omitted)
• whether a prison official actually drew the ■ inference that there was a substantial- risk of serious harm to the plaintiff is “a factual question that a court of appeals lacks jurisdiction to hear on interlocutory appeal”
• “For an official to act with deliberate indifference, ‘the official must both be aware of facts from which the inference could be drawn that a substantial risk of serious harm exists, and he must also draw the inference.’” (quoting Farmer v. Brennan, 511 U.S. 825, 837 (1994)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).