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· 2/24/2014

Segura v. Houston

Citations

  • 134 S. Ct. 1306
  • 188 L. Ed. 2d 328
  • 82 U.S.L.W. 3493
  • 571 U.S. 1214
  • 2014 WL 684296
  • 2014 U.S. LEXIS 1261

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  • holding that no reasonable juror could infer deliberate indifference where prison officials took sensible steps to address unsafe prison conditions
  • holding that no reasonable juror could infer deliberate indifference where prison officials took sensible steps to address unsafe prison conditions
  • holding that no reasonable juror could infer Nos. 19-1145, 19-1375 & 19-1978 11 deliberate indifference where prison officials took sensible steps to address unsafe prison conditions
  • holding that no reasonable juror could infer Nos. 19-1145, 19-1375 & 19-1978 11 deliberate indifference where prison officials took sensible steps to address unsafe prison conditions
  • holding that the plaintiff’s “limited evidence” was insufficient to establish “a history or pattern of violence … such that a jury could infer a level of gang violence so pervasive that [the defendants] actu- ally knew of a substantial risk of harm to inmates”
  • describing how allegations of systemic issues, as opposed to isolated conditions, is one way to show that supervisors violated the Eighth Amendment

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