People v. Smith

How courts have described this case

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• holding that prison officials’ failure to inspect and maintain cell beds and exercise equipment which, in two separate incidents, fell and allegedly injured inmate, were merely assertions that the officials did not exercise due care, not evidence of deliberate indifference
• noting that \alleging merely the ultimate fact of retaliation is insufficient\
• abrogated on other grounds by McGill v. Duckworth, 944 F.2d 344, 346 (7th Cir. 1991)
• inadvertent failure to provide adequate medical attention, or negligence in diagnosing or treating a medical condition does not rise to the level of an Eighth Amendment violation

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