failure-to-protect

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
23-5803 Robert K. Decker v. Edwin Baez, et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-10-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment excessive-force failure-to-protect federal-question shackling spoliation Did the United States District Court, Magistrate Judge err in the decision to have the Plaintiff, Robert K. Decker be hand cuffed, (left wrist) and sh…
23-317 Otis Crandel, as Dependent Administrator of and on Behalf of Billy Wayne Worl, Jr., et al. v. Dalena Hall, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-09-27 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) including failure to protect from the risk of sui civil-rights constitutional-rights custody-conditions due-process failure-to-protect objective-reasonableness pretrial-detainee pretrial-detainees suicide-risk Whether the objective reasonableness test of Kingsley v. Hendrickson applies to pretrial detainees' claims about their treatment while in custody, inc…
22-6928 Logan Dyjak v. Jo-An Lynn, et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-03-03 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process failure-to-protect first-amendment fourteenth-amendment litigation-reform mental-health sexual-abuse sexual-acts Which constitutional claims can an individual, such as Paul, who was committed for mental health treatment, bring against state officials for failure …
22-5799 Anthony Andrews v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina Fourth Circuit 2022-10-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights due-process failure-to-protect inmate-assault prison-litigation-reform-act standing Whether the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA) bars a civil action for damages against prison officials for failure to protect an inmate from assault…
21-7689 Deverick Scott v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-04-25 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-rights discovery due-process eighth-amendment failure-to-protect prisoner-rights retaliation screening-process section-1983 Did Defendants violate Scott's right to be protected from assault by another inmate?
21-5838 Michael Andrew Johnson v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-10-01 Denied IFP administrative-negligence civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-violation due-process failure-to-protect inmate-violence prison-safety prisoner-rights prisoner-vulnerability protective-custody standing Why did A.D.C. officials 'Wendy Kelly' and Byron Brown' fail to protect me from a stabbing?
20-7368 Antonio Dewayne Hooks v. Kayodi Atoki, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-03-08 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process excessive-force failure-to-protect fourteenth-amendment medical-needs objective-reasonableness pretrial-detainee Whether Kingsley v. Hendrickson's objective-reasonableness standard applies to pretrial detainees' deliberate-indifference claims
20-6528 Ecclesiastical Denzel Washington v. Benjamin Brooke, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-12-03 Denied IFP civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment failure-to-protect prison-conditions prison-safety summary-judgment Whether the district court improperly decided factual issues in granting summary judgment
18-9144 Delbert Heard v. John R. Baldwin, Director, Illinois Department of Corrections, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-05-06 Denied IFP 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-protection cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment excessive-force failure-to-protect inmate-safety prisoner-rights standing substantial-risk Whether the risk of inmate-on-inmate assault became sufficiently substantial to trigger 8th Amendment protections under Farmer v. Brennan, 511 U.S. 82…