Levon Brown v. United States of America

How courts have described this case

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• analyzing the BOP’s liability in a federal prisoner’s failure-to-protect suit in terms of what “the federal government knew or reasonably should have known”
• analyzing BOP’s liability in a federal prisoner’s failure-to-protect suit in terms of what “the federal government knew or reasonably should have known”
• finding evidence of federal government’s negligence based on its knowledge of inadequate conditions in county jail housing federal inmates
• analyzing United States’s liability under the FTCA, in a federal prisoner’s failure-to-protect suit, in terms of what “the federal government knew or reasonably should have known”
• “we are extremely hesitant to hold that mere simple negligence can be the basis of personal liability under § 1983”
• \[I]t is clear that the Federal Tort Claims Act does render the United States answerable in damages for the simple negligence of its employees in failing to protect prisoners.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).