Heriberto Rodriguez v. County of Los Angeles, 891 F.3d 776 (2018)

Citation: Heriberto Rodriguez v. County of Los Angeles, 891 F.3d 776 (2018)
Parent Document: Heriberto Rodriguez v. County of Los Angeles, 891 F.3d 776 (2018)
Jurisdiction: United States (federal)
Effective Date: 2018-05-30
Original Source: https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/4502306/heriberto-rodriguez-v-county-of... ↗

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Analogous Supreme Court and circuit cases decided well
before 2008 gave these deputies notice that the malicious and
sadistic use of force in responding to a prison disturbance
violated the Eighth Amendment. See, e.g., Hudson, 504 U.S.
at 4 (holding that officers violated the Eighth Amendment
where one officer “punched Hudson in the mouth, eyes, chest,
and stomach while [another officer] held the inmate in place
and kicked and punched him from behind”). In Martinez, for
instance, the plaintiff claimed that he had covered his cell
door with a bed sheet in order to prevent pepper spray fumes
from entering the cell during a prison disturbance. 323 F.3d
at 1180. Under the plaintiff’s version of events, “after he told
the officers the sheet would be removed when the fumes were
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