Oscar E. Williams v. Roy Mueller, Warden Clarence Davis, C.O.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the warden was not liable for an Eighth Amendment violation in which he had no involvement
• holding that a “prison official acts with deliberate indifference to an inmate’s safety when the official is present at the time of the assault and fails to intervene or otherwise act to end the assault”
• finding that failure to intervene does not necessarily amount to an Eighth Amendment violation
• Eighth Amendment apparently violated when officer stood idly by as two inmates beat a third inmate, delayed requesting assistance, and blocked the inmate's attempt to escape
• “A prison official acts with deliberate indifference to an inmate’s safety when the official is present at the time of an assault and fails to intervene or otherwise act to end the assault.”
• “A prison official acts with deliberate indifference to an inmate’s safety when the official is present at the time of an assault and fails to intervene or otherwise act to end the assault.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).