Jordan v. Frederick Leyland & Co.

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• concluding that “inmate-on-inmate violence occur[ing] regularly when the jail was overcrowded,” which “was severe enough to require medical attention and even hospitalization on occasion,” was sufficient for a reasonable jury to find a substantial risk of serious harm
• finding that failure by jailer to check on “bullpen” of inmates during one hour prior to assault insufficient to show deliberate indifference
• finding that a sheriff's “failure to take meaningful action” to address overcrowding, inadequate guard 23 supervision, and inmate violence amounted to deliberate indifference
• explaining that a plaintiff must produce sufficient evidence that the defendant’s deliberate indifference to a known serious risk of harm caused the plaintiff’s constitutional injury.
• stating that the sheriff's failure to pursue reasonable measures, such as “classifying and segregating the inmates based on their likelihood for violence,” demonstrated deliberate indifference
• explaining that the plaintiff had to show link between excessive risk of violence and injury

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