Gordon R. Steidl v. Richard B. Gramley

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that an inmate’s complaint failed to state a claim because it did not allege a “systematic lapse … that was known to the warden”
• concluding that an inmate’s complaint failed to state a claim because it did not allege a “systematic lapse … that was known to the warden”
• holding warden—not a municipality—was not liable for the isolated failure of his subordinates to carry out a policy about manning guard towers
• A warden does not violate “the Eighth Amendment when he might have known of a risk of harm, or in any event should have known.”
• “The plaintiff never comes to grips with the central issue in this case—the absence of vicarious liability [for a warden] in a § 1983 action.”
• No vicarious liability for warden when prison guards were accused of security failures that allowed an attack on an inmate.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).