Marty Cortez v. Bill Skol

How courts have described this case

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• holding that summary judgment to correctional officer was precluded when prisoner suffered severe brain damage after being attacked by two fellow prisoners when there was evidence to suggest that (1
• holding that an officer leading three inmates through a prison was deliberately indifferent to the risk that the inmates would be violent with one another, citing evidence that the officer knew about (1) the hostility between the inmates, (2
• observing that a prison official showed “deliberate indifference” by transporting inmates without 12 SHELTRA V. CHRISTENSEN backup when he knew that one inmate was potentially in danger
• “[a] jury could 14 reasonably conclude that” the officer “exposed [the plaintiff] to a substantial risk of serious 15 injury,” where the officer did not intervene during a five-minute attack
• substantial risk of harm when undermanned guard transported inmates without leg restraints in a dangerous area of the prison, when inmates had engaged in harassing talk and one was in protective custody
• “Deliberate indifference is something more than mere negligence but something less 4 than acts or omissions for the very purpose of causing harm or with knowledge that harm will 5 result.” (cleaned up)

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