Estate of Rice Ex Rel. Rice v. Correctional Medical Services

How courts have described this case

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• holding that pepper spray was justified when a prisoner struck his cellmate and refused to comply with an order to leave the cell
• noting that “jail officials ordinarily are entitled to defer to the judgment of medical professionals”
• holding that jail officials were not deliberately indifferent by seeking to treat a detainee 17 in-house because nothing “suggests that the result necessarily would have been different had the care been provided at a private facility”
• holding that “[b]ecause Rice was a pretrial detainee, it is the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment rather than the Eighth Amend‐ ment’s proscription against cruel and unusual punishment which is the source of [his] right”
• requiring that \the failure to train reflect[ ] a conscious choice among alternatives\
• noting that where “most of the errors and omissions” cited by the plaintiffs were about how staff handled the detainee’s medical condition, there could be no liability for the policymaker

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).