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· 4/28/1987

Pressly v. Hutto

Citations

  • 816 F.2d 977
  • 1987 U.S. App. LEXIS 5456

How courts have described this case

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

  • stating that in order to succeed on a failure to protect claim, subjectively, the prisoner must establish that the prison officials exhibited deliberate or callous indifference to a specific known risk of harm
  • negligent failure of prison staff to protect inmate from attack by another inmate fails to state a claim
  • negligent failure of prison staff to protect inmate from attack by another inmate fails to state a claim

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