Raby v. Livingston

How courts have described this case

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

• holding a plaintiff must show that he will experience more than “any minor pain involved in multiple attempts to find an adequate vein.”
• emphasizing that there were “signs of irrationality and 20 paranoia when it came” to pursuing a defense to criminal charges that should have raised a doubt 21 about defendant’s competency to proceed
• stating that the party opposing summary judgment “may not simply rely on vague assertions that additional discovery will produce needed, but unspecified, facts.” (quoting SEC v. Spence & Green Chem. Co., 612 F.2d 896, 801 (5th Cir. 1980))
• upholding Texas lethal injection protocol where evidence of problems with inserting IVs
• affirming denial of plaintiff’s Rule 56(d) motion because he did “not indicate[] how any fact he hopes to discover” would present a genuine issue of material fact
• rejecting Texas inmate’s Eighth Amendment claim because state execution protocol “mandates . . . that sufficient safeguards are in place to reduce the risk of pain below the level of constitutional significance”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).