· 6/30/1997
Jerome K. Hamilton v. Faith Leavy Pamela Faulkner William Queener Frances Lewis
Citations
- 117 F.3d 742
- 1997 U.S. App. LEXIS 16598
- 1997 WL 356923
How courts have described this case
Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.
- to establish an Eighth Amendment claim, plaintiff must show defendant’s deliberate indifference to the risk
- “If a prison official responds reasonably to a risk to an inmate’s safety, he or she cannot be found to have acted with a sufficiently culpable state of mind.”
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Judges: Nygaard, Lewis, Cohill
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