Steven Hill v. William Shelander

How courts have described this case

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• prisoner challenged guard’s order to step out of cell, guard responded by attacking him; reasonable fact finder could conclude that guard acted maliciously and sadistically to cause harm
• “[I]f the finder of fact were to decide that [defendant] acted with malicious intent, there could be no question that a reasonable prison sergeant should reasonably have known that the conduct described by [plaintiff] violated the eighth amendment.”
• “[I]f the finder of fact were to decide that [the defendant] acted with malicious intent, there could be no question that a reasonable prison sergeant should reasonably have known that the conduct described by [the plaintiff] violated the eighth amendment.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).