Lonell Newman Hoseia Chestnut v. Levi Holmes

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that inmate who assaulted plaintiff posed a substantial risk of serious harm because he was on disciplinary court review status, meaning the inmate was a potential danger to others and was supposed to be in isolated confinement
• affirming jury verdict for prisoner where question of whether guard was deliberately indifferent was \very close\
• noting a “complete absence of evidence” other than the assailant’s prison classification that defendants were on notice
• upholding a jury’s finding that a guard who opened the door to an isolated confinement cell created, and was deliberately indifferent to, an excessive risk of harm to other inmates
• “[V]iolation of an internal prison regulation does not by itself give rise to an Eighth Amendment claim.”
• negligence is not enough to establish Eighth Amendment violation

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).