Morritz J. Weiss v. Brad Cooley

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “a deliberate indifference claim cannot be predicated merely on knowledge of general risks of violence”
• holding that “a deliberate indifference claim cannot be predicated merely on knowledge of general risks of violence”
• holding that “a deliberate indifference claim cannot be predicated merely on knowledge of general risks of violence”
• reversing summary judgment and remanding for trial where evidence suggested that prison official knew of substantial risk that an inmate would be attacked but said, “you have to face the music sometime”
• “Sometimes the heightened risk of which the guards were aware comes about because of their knowledge of the victim’s characteris- tics, not the assailant’s.”
• “It is certainly true that a deliberate indifference claim cannot be predicated merely on knowledge of general risks of violence in prison.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).