250 F. Supp. 2d 1218 - McGrath v. Scott’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
3 district · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1367 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Conley v. Gibson · Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Scheuer v. Rhodes · Anderson v. Creighton
Most-quoted passages
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“[I]n order to establish Section 1983 liability in an action against a state official for an injury ... the plaintiff must show that the state official participated in creating a dangerous condition, and acted with deliberate indifference to the known or obvious danger in subjecting the plaintiff to it. ... Deliberate indifference to a known, or so obvious as to imply knowledge of, danger, by a supervisor who participated in creating the danger, is enough. Less is not enough.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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