Topic: an actor usually is interposed between the detainee and the… · Go Syfert
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4 canonical passages across 4 cases, quoted by 21 opinions in total. These passages cluster together because the same opinions keep quoting them side by side — they state parts of one doctrine. The anchor passage is from Scott v. Moore.

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1 Scott v. Moore Anchor
ca5 · 1997
green “an actor usually is interposed between the detainee and the municipality, such that the detainee complains first of a particular act of, or omission by, the actor and then points derivatively to a policy, custom, or rule (or lack thereof) of the municipality that permitted or ca…” 6
2 Shepherd v. Dallas County
ca5 · 2009
green “constitutional challenges by pretrial detainees may be brought under two alternative theories: as an attack on a 'condition of confinement' or as an 'episodic act or omission.” 6
3 Estate of Wilbert Lee Henson v. Wichita Cou
ca5 · 2015
green “a challenge to a condition of confinement is a challenge to 'general conditions, practices, rules, or restrictions of pretrial confinement.” 5
4 Estate of Wilbert Lee Henson v. Wichita Cou
ca5 · 2011
green “the fourteenth amendment requires that state officials not disregard the 'basic human needs of pretrial detainees, including medical care.” 4

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