· 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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