Legal Opinion
Caiozzo v. Koreman
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided September 22, 2009No. Docket 05-4002-cvPublishedCited by 179 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SACK, Circuit Judge:
In Farmer v. Brennan, 511 U.S. 825, 837, 114 S.Ct. 1970, 128 L.Ed.2d 811 (1994), the Supreme Court held that a subjective test adapted from the criminal law applies to suits against federal prison officials for violating a convicted inmate’s right to be free from cruel or unusual punishment under the Eighth Amendment. In the wake of Farmer, such a defendant is liable to an injured prisoner only if he “disregards a risk of harm of which he is aware,” id. at 837, 114 S.Ct. 1970, and that causes the injury. Prior to Farmer, we had held that deliberate indifference claims…
2Cases cited19 opinions
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