Iko v. Shreve

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that deliberate indifference requires a showing that defendants “must have actually known that that their response was inadequate”
• holding that deployment of pepper spray after inmate is lying on the floor restrained may give rise to inference that force was not employed protectively
• concluding that fourth Whitley factor favored inmate when officers used pepper spray on inmate and then “never secured him any medical treatment for the exposure”
• holding that where the record contains a videotape, plaintiff’s version of the facts need only be credited to the extent it is not contradicted by the videotape
• holding that “[a]n injury is sufficiently serious for purposes of the objective component of an Eighth Amendment excessive force claim as long as it rises above the level of de minimis harm”
• holding that a medical need is objectively serious when it is “one that is so obvious that even a lay person would easily recognize the necessity for a doctor's attention”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).