The following excerpt is from Thurston v. Younger, No. 2:18-cv-0527 CKD P (E.D. Cal. 2020):
Under the Eighth Amendment, "prison officials have a duty to protect prisoners from violence at the hands of other prisoners." Farmer v. Brennan, 511 U.S. 825, 833 (1994) (internal quotation marks, ellipsis, and citation omitted). A prison official may be held liable for an assault suffered by one inmate at the hands of another only where the assaulted inmate can show he
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