Keith A. Berg v. Larry Kincheloe

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that a guard was deliberately indifferent when the guard “ignored [a] plea” from an incarcerated person that his life was in danger
• holding that the prison official need not “believe to a moral certainty that one inmate intends to attack another at a given place at a time certain before that officer is obligated to take steps to prevent such an assault.”
• recognizing \competing institutional concerns\ present in separation cases that distinguish them from medical treatment cases
• holding that the prison official need not “believe to a moral certainty that one 18 inmate intends to attack another at a given place at a time certain before that officer is obligated to 19 take steps to prevent such an assault.”
• holding that a prison official need not “believe to a moral certainty that one inmate intends 5 to attack another at a given place at a time certain before that officer is obligated to take steps to 6 prevent such an assault.”
• stating summary judgment 21 appropriate as to defendants when plaintiff “failed to come forward with facts showing that these 22 defendants had any reason to believe he would be attacked by the assailant”

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