Salter v. Ohio

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that \unjustified constant and unreasonable exposure to violence\ violates Eighth Amendment
• explaining that if a defendant “attempt[ed] to remedy a constitutionally deficient prison condition, but fail[ed] in that endeavor, he cannot be deliberately indifferent unless [he] kn[ew] of, but disregard[ed], an appropriate and sufficient alternative” (emphasis added)
• finding lack of security could constitute Eighth Amendment violation if defendants have awareness and capability to rectify situation
• finding a causal link where the defendant “knew that the actions he undertook would be insufficient to provide inmates with reasonable protection from violence”
• affirming injunctive order issued to Rule 23(b)(2) class consisting of prisoners
• prison official wouldn’t be personally liable if he did everything he could, but prisoner could get an injunction against official in his official capacity

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).