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· 5/31/2006

Mario Valdes v. James v. Crosby, Jr.

Citations

  • 450 F.3d 1231
  • 2006 U.S. App. LEXIS 13401
  • 2006 WL 1474726

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  • holding that a prison warden was deliberately indifferent when he had re- ceived at least 13 complaints and inquiries in 13 months before the plaintiff’s son’s death at the hands of prison guards
  • holding that plaintiff’s deliberate-indifference claim against prison warden sur- vived summary judgment when warden had received at least 13 complaints and inquiries in 13 months before the plaintiff’s son’s death at the hands of prison guards
  • denying summary judgment for a prison official when thirteen deprivations occurred across the prison over the course of one and a half years
  • denying summary judgment for a prison supervisor when thirteen deprivations occurred across the prison over the course of one and one-half years
  • noting the standard to overcome Florida’s sovereign immunity “is at least as high as the standard needed to prove” an officer or agent of the state was deliberately indifferent to an inmate’s health or safety under § 1983
  • warden took no action in response to evidence of widespread beatings and torture by prison guards

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Judges: Tjoflat, Barkett, Goodwin

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