Flanders v. Maricopa County

How courts have described this case

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• stating this court will not set aside a jury verdict just because the jury could have drawn different inferences or conclusions
• “Liability is imposed, not on the grounds of respondeat superior, but because the agent’s status cloaks him with the governmental body’s authority.”
• “Farmer acknowledged the ‘settled’ proposition that a prison official’s deliberate indifference to a substantial risk of serious harm to an inmate violates the Eighth Amendment.”
• “Liability [under 42 U.S.C. § 1983] is imposed, not on the grounds of respondeat superior, but because the agent’s status cloaks him with the governmental body’s authority.”
• “Liability [under 42 U.S.C. § 1983] is imposed, not on the grounds of respondeat superior, but because the agent’s status cloaks him with the governmental body’s authority.”
• “In considering whether sufficient evidence supports the jury verdict, [this court] . . . do[es] not attempt to reweigh the facts or comb the record for evidence supporting a conclusion or inference different from that reached by the jury.”

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