Pedro Arroyo and Christopher McCormack v. Peter M. Schaefer, Former Deputy Warden in Command, Manhattan House of Detention

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• defining “conduct which ‘shocks the conscience’ ” as “circumstances indicating an evil intent, or recklessness, or at least deliberate indifference to the consequences of his conduct…”
• “Respondeat superior is not a doctrine that is applicable to § 1983 actions.”
• plaintiff must show evil intent, recklessness, or deliberate indifference
• plaintiff must show evil intent, recklessness, or deliberate indifference

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