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Due Process Clause Not Implicated by Guard's Negligence
The U.S. Supreme Court upheld a Federal Appeals Court decision that the Fourteenth Amendment does not afford protection to a person in custody when injury results from the negligence of a state official. After injuring himself in a fall caused by a pillow left on a stairway by a Virginia ...
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