substantial-risk

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
22-7153 Tamar Devell Harvey v. Frederick Russell, Assistant Warden Fourth Circuit 2023-03-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP bodily-harm civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment inmate-safety prison-official prison-officials risk-of-serious-harm substantial-risk Whether the district court erred in dismissing the plaintiff's claim for failure to state a claim
21-6997 Luke Waine Caines, Jr. v. M. Interian Ninth Circuit 2022-01-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP court-of-appeals deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment medical-needs prisoner-rights substantial-injury substantial-risk substantial-risk-of-harm wood-v-housewright Whether deliberate indifference should be analyzed under the balancing framework of the substantial risk of harm test announced by this Court rather t…
20-7775 Fita E. Spann v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-04-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-4246 18-usc-4247 bodily-injury conditional-release due-process federal-mental-health-statutes mental-health-statutes psychiatric-examination risk-assessment substantial-risk Whether Due Process and the federal mental health statutes require a new mental examination prior to revocation of conditional release
20-738 Donald Grochowski, as Administrator of the Estate of Kenneth Grochowski, Deceased, et al. v. Clayton County, Georgia, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-11-27 Denied Response Waived cell-design civil-rights detainee-safety due-process inadequate-staffing jail-conditions legislative-immunity objective-reasonableness qualified-immunity substantial-risk Whether the trial court and panel erred in failing to draw inferences in Grochowski's favor and find that the conditions and systems created a substan…
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…
18-5096 Raymond Tibbetts v. John Kasich, Governor of Ohio, et al. Sixth Circuit 2018-07-03 Denied IFP baze-v-rees baze-vs-rees eighth-amendment execution-protocol glossip-v-gross glossip-vs-gross lethal-injection midazolam prisoner-rights scientific-evidence substantial-risk substantial-risk-of-harm substantial-risk-of-serious-harm Whether a prisoner challenging a midazolam three-drug lethal-injection protocol must prove with scientific evidence that the first drug is sure or ver…