Ronald Combs, Jason Robb, and George Skatzes v. Reginald Wilkinson, Director of the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction

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• noting “that the use of mace to control a prison inmate is not malicious or sadistic”
• stating what level of force is needed to succeed on an Eighth Amendment claim
• no liability for supervisor who was not present during excessive force incident and was not alleged to bear any responsibility for the incident
• “Supervisory liability under § 1983 cannot be based upon a mere failure to act but must be based upon active unconstitutional behavior.”
• “It is well settled that § 1983 liability will not be imposed solely on the basis of respondeat superior.”
• “[T]he use of mace to control a prison inmate is not malicious or sadistic.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).