What is the test for a failure to protect claim?
MultiRegion, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Moore v. Diaz, Case No. 1:20-cv-00865-EPG (PC) (E.D. Cal. 2020):
To establish a failure to protect claim, the prisoner must establish that prison officials were deliberately indifferent to a sufficiently serious threat to the prisoner's safety. Farmer v. Brennan, 511 U.S. 825, 837 (1994). "'Deliberate indifference' has both subjective and
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