Guzman v. Sheahan

How courts have described this case

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• “[D]eliberate indifference requires evidence that an official actually knew of a substantial risk of serious harm and consciously disregarded it nonetheless.”
• officers can be held liable when they know of a substantial risk of harm to an inmate but fail to take appropriate steps to protect him
• abrogated by Kemp v. Fulton County, 27 F.4th 491 (7th Cir. 2022) on other grounds relating to defendant’s awareness of a pretrial detainee in failure-to-protect cases
• no deliberate indifference where officer saw attack on inmate, called for and secured immediate back-up, but did not admonish attackers to stop; officer’s actions may have constituted negligence but could not be characterized as deliberate indifference
• “An official capacity suit is tantamount to a claim against the government entity itself.”
• \An official capacity suit is tantamount to a claim against the government entity itself.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).