Longoria v. State of Texas

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that officers violated no “clearly established” law by failing to inter- vene when a prisoner was attacked and stabbed by two other in- mates
• explaining that “no rule of constitutional law requires unarmed officials to endanger their own safety in order to protect a prison inmate threatened with physical violence”
• officers did not immediately intervene but ran to alert other officers and to obtain weapons and tear gas
• “No rule of constitutional law requires unarmed officials to endanger their own safety in order to protect a prison inmate threatened with physical violence.”
• officers did not immediately intervene but ran to alert other officers and to obtain weapons and tear gas
• officers who did not immediately intervene but ran to alert other officers of an ongoing attack and to obtain weapons and tear gas were not deliberately indifferent

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).