Shepherd v. Dallas County’s Empirical Analysis
591 F.3d 445 · 2009
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 1 district ·
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Bell v. Wolfish · Joshua Deshaney, a Minor, by His Guardian Ad Litem, and Melody Deshaney,s v. Winnebago County Department of Social Services, et al. · Unitherm Food Systems, Inc. v. Swift-Eckrich, Inc. · Hare v. City of Corinth, Miss. · Polanco v. City of Austin
Most-quoted passages
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“An episodic-acts-or-omissions claim, by contrast, 'faults specific jail officials for their acts or omissions.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“transgresses the substantive limits on state action set by the Eighth Amendment and the Due Process Clause. The affirmative duty to protect arises not from the State’s knowledge of the individual’s predicament or from its expressions of intent to help him, but from, the limitation which it has imposed on his freedom to act on his own behalf.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The 'unconstitutional conditions' theory rests on the idea that the County has imposed what amounts to punishment in advance of trial on pretrial detainees[.] ... The 'episodic acts and omissions' theory, in contrast, requires a finding that particular jailers acted or failed to act with deliberate indifference to the detainee's needs.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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