Keith v. Koerner

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• sustaining denial of a motion to dismiss warden where much more specific factual allegations produced a plausible claim of deliberate indifference
• rejecting an argument that because a prison supervisor had certain responsibilities, “he must have been aware of [the aggressor's] criminal intent and did nothing to prevent it”
• dismissing an insufficient argument that because a prison supervisor had certain responsibilities, \he must have been aware of [the aggressor's] criminal intent and did nothing to prevent it\
• rejecting reliance on Barney and Hovater if prison official has “actual knowledge” of threat
• “The denial of qualified immunity is an appealable final order . . . .” (citation omitted)
• “[I]t is clearly established that a prison official’s deliberate indifference to sexual abuse by prison employees violates the Eighth Amendment.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).