Seventh Circuit· 7/12/2022

Marvin Thomas v. Thomas Dart

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39 F.4th 835

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holding that the plaintiff could not “assert an appreciable risk of harm based solely on his placement in the Jail’s general population because the ‘general risks of violence in prison’ confront virtually every detainee”
applying substantial risk of serious harm standard to Fourteenth Amendment failure-to-protect claim
“[T]he risk must be somehow ‘specific to a detainee, and not a mere general risk of violence.’” (quoting Brown, 398 F.3d at 909)
“Amendment is futile when it seeks to add a new claim that does not allege a viable theory of liability.”
“[A] pretrial detainee must allege . . . the defendant made an intentional decision regarding the conditions of the plaintiff’s confinement”
“By itself, an adverse judicial ruling does not provide a valid basis for questioning a judge's impartiality.”

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