Wyatte v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that triable issue of fact existed where a prison official lowered a 400—pound laundry cart onto an inmate without confirming that the inmate had secured the cart
• rejecting argument that plaintiff was precluded from bringing an Eighth Amendment claim because she volunteered for the work assignment
• “Where a prison official’s conduct is merely negligent—i.e., where simply an accident has occurred—there is no viable claim.”
• “[T]he official must both be aware of facts from which the inference could be drawn that a substantial risk of serious harm exists, and he must also draw the inference.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).