Knowles v. New York City Department of Corrections

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• holding that the severity of plaintiff s injury, a cut to the face requiring sixteen stitches, clearly “constitute[d] a denial of the minimal civilized measure of life’s necessities”
• finding that “a deep cut to his face which required sixty stitches to close” after being “suddenly and unexpectedly slashed with a sharp instrument possessed by a fellow inmate ... easily satisfies the objective element of an Eighth Amendment claim.” (citations omitted)
• finding “a deep cut to [the plaintiff’s] face which required sixty stitches to close” to be sufficiently serious
• plaintiff had “his face suddenly and unexpectedly slashed with a sharp instrument possessed by a fellow inmate”
• prisoner’s physical characteristics and accent, as well as prison officials’ statements that “war” was going on between Spanish and Jamaican inmates suggested inmate was at risk of substantial harm
• city department of corrections not vicariously 6 liable to inmate for constitutional violation by guards; department is liable only if violations 7 were part of pattern or practice

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).