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· 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

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  • 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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