Pentonville Developers, Ltd. v. Republic Iraq

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a defendant’s contemporaneous statement that he did not believe there was a serious risk of harm foreclosed a finding of culpability
• concluding that it is unreasonable for prison official to postpone HCV treatment because of parole possibility without assessing “inmate’s actual chances of parole”
• recognizing that “an inmate’s transfer from a prison facility generally moots claims for declaratory and injunctive relief against officials of that facility.”
• holding that an inmate’s transfer from a correctional facility generally moots claims for declaratory and injunctive relief against officials at that facility
• holding that where prison officials did not “point[ ] to anything in the record to show that they relied on legitimate peno-logical justifications,” court could not “manufacture facts out of thin air”
• holding that [t]he prison official “need not desire to cause such harm or be aware that such harm will surely or almost certainly result. Rather, proof of awareness of a substantial risk of the harm suffices.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).