Thompson v. Upshur County TX

How courts have described this case

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• holding that pretrial detainees’ “constitutional right ... not to have their serious medical needs met with deliberate indifference on the part of the confining officials” is protected by the Fourteenth Amendment due process clause
• supervisory officials are not liable for the actions of subordinates on any theory of vicarious liability

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).