Walter Jimmy Brown v. State

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that it is reasonable for jailers to take actions in “rel[iance] on medical judgments made by medical professionals responsible for prisoner care” (citation omitted)
• “The district court correctly dismissed the[] official capacity claims as superfluous of the claim against the county.”
• “The district court correctly dismissed these official capacity claims as superfluous of the claim against the county.”
• pretrial detainee who was “completely isolated” from other prisoners was unconstitutionally punished, assuming the truth of his allegations
• “Placement of a mentally-ill detainee in solitary confinement ‘raises a genuine concern that the negative psychological effects of his segregation will drive him to self-harm.’” (citation omitted)
• “Placement of a mentally-ill detainee in solitary confinement ‘raises a genuine concern that the negative psychological effects of his segregation will drive him to self-harm.’” (citation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).