Joseph L. Spencer v. Bd. of Police Comm.

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• holding that transporting pretrial detainees in “patrol wagons without safety restraints” did not pose objectively serious risk of harm sufficient to state deliberate indifference claim
• concluding that policy of using transport vehicles without safety restraints nor its manner of transporting individuals in those vehicles “obviously presented a substantial risk of harm”
• concluding that policy of using transport vehicles without safety restraints nor its manner of transporting individuals in those vehicles “obviously presented a substantial risk of harm”
• suggesting that the purely subjective standard from Farmer may be inappropriate for due process claims brought by pretrial detainees
• noting that transporting individuals without seat belts did not present a “substantial risk of serious harm.”
• holding use of patrol wagons without seatbelts to transport pretrial detainees did not violate the Fourth Amendment because it did not present a “substantial risk of serious harm”

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