Legal Opinion
FORMAN v. MONTGOMERY COUNTY CORRECTIONAL FACILITY
District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania
Decided February 7, 2020No. 2:19-cv-05300Unknown
1Opinion
IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA DERRICK FORMAN : CIVIL ACTION v. NO. 19-5300 MONTGOMERY COUNTY CORRECTIONAL FACILITY, et al. : MEMORANDUM KEARNEY, J. February 7, 2020 Correctional officers ignoring a psychiatric care inmate’s protests about being placed in a medical cell with a naked masturbating inmate with a history of assaulting cellmates and who then sexually assaults him may be liable to the protesting inmate for deliberative indifference or failure to protect. He may sue state actors with personal knowledge or who may be liable under a theory…
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