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· 7/9/2003

Pagels v. Morrison

Citations

  • 335 F.3d 736
  • 2003 U.S. App. LEXIS 13717

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • concluding that an official was not deliberately indifferent where he searched cells in an unsuccessful effort to alleviate an inmate’s risk
  • finding that an official did not have knowledge of a risk when he interpreted information about a fight as a common request for a room move
  • “[T]o act with deliberate indifference, [defendants] must have recklessly disregarded a known, excessive risk of serious harm to [plaintiff’s] safety”
  • negligence, and even gross negligence, are insufficient to establish a failure to protect claim
  • negligence, and even gross negligence, is insufficient to establish a failure to protect claim
  • negligence does not establish a failure to protect claim

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