Soulantzos v. Shell Oil Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that plaintiff must allege that defendant officer did not take reasonable available measures even though “reasonable officer in the circumstances would have appreciated the high degree of risk”
• holding that a “defendant officer must act intentionally in a manner that puts the plaintiff at substantial risk of harm, without taking reasonable steps to abate that risk, and by failing to do so actually cause the plaintiff’s injuries.”
• finding an intentional decision where the officer was advised that there were concerns about the plaintiff’s safety and those concerns were not later refuted
• “[B]eing identified as a ‘snitch’ in prison puts an inmate at substantial risk of assault.”
• providing deliberate indifference to an inmate’s health or safety violates the Eighth Amendment while deliberate indifference to a pretrial detainee’s health or safety violates the Fourteenth Amendment
• implementing the Castro test and holding the defendant “must act intentionally in a manner that puts the plaintiff at substantial risk of harm, without taking reasonable steps to abate that risk, and by failing to do so actually cause the plaintiff’s injuries”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).