Esquire, Inc. v. Lewis

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• imposing liability upon supervisors where violation was a “natural and foreseeable consequence of the supervisors’ indifference”
• prison administrators had firmly established duty to ensure that weapons were not misused against inmates
• although convicted prisoner's misconduct merited some disciplinary response, means used were so disproportionate under the circumstances as to violate the prisoner's eighth amendment rights
• although convicted prisoner’s misconduct merited some disciplinary response, means used were so disproportionate under the circumstances as to violate the prisoner’s eighth amendment rights

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