Walker v. Norris

How courts have described this case

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• finding deliberate indifference of constitutional magnitude may occur when prison guards fail to protect one inmate from an attack by another
• noting a state law cannot provide immunity with respect to a § 1983 claim
• affirming an award of punitive damages in a § 1983 case, concluding that the “maliciously, wantonly, or oppressively done” jury instruction was “as strict as the standard articulated by the Supreme Court in Smith v. Wade”
• “Viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the plaintiff, the jury could have concluded that officers Ritz and Jordan had opportunities to prevent the stabbing death . . . by intervening when Eggleston attacked Fails in the yard as the guards looked on.”
• “Under the circumstances, the plaintiff’s section 1983 claim in a case such as this must be for redress of eighth amendment, not fourteenth amendment substantive due process, rights.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).