Gordon v. Kidd

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that pre-trial detainees have a right “to medical attention, and prison officials violate a detainee’s right to due process [under the Fourteenth Amendment] when they are deliberately indifferent to serious medical needs”
• finding that prison officials could not be deliberately indifferent because no one warned them that the prisoner had made suicide threats
• applying the deliberate indifference standard to the conduct of government officials when a prisoner suffers from a \serious psychological condition[ ]\ such as being suicidal
• “[T]he key to deliberate indifference in a prison suicide case is whether the defendants knew, or reasonably should have known, of the detainee’s suicidal tendencies.”
• “Pretrial detainees, like inmates under active sentence, are entitled to medical attention, and prison officials violate detainees' rights to due process when they are deliberately indifferent to serious medical needs.”
• “Pretrial detainees, like inmates under active sentence, are entitled to medical attention, and prison officials violate detainees’ rights to due process when they are deliberately indifferent to serious medical needs.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).