Giraldo v. Department of Corrections & Rehabilitation

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• determining that “there is a special 11 relationship between jailer and prisoner, imposing on the former a duty of care to the latter”
• holding jailers have a duty of care to protect prisoners from foreseeable harm inflicted by third parties
• affirming dismissal of declaratory relief 9 claims as moot because “[i]t is clear that upon plaintiff’s parole she was no longer under the 10 physical control of CDCR, and the challenged conduct no longer applied to her”
• courts have long held that prison officials must protect, e. g., transgender inmate from foreseeable harm by other in­mates
• “[J]ailers owe prisoners a duty of care to pro- tect them from foreseeable harm”
• “[JQailers owe prisoners a duty of care to protect them from foreseeable harm”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).