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Christopher Shorter v. United States

Is it still good law? What later courts have actually done to this case.

Abrogated
Court
Third Circuit
Citation
12 F.4th 366
Decided
Confirmed treatments
1
Flagged citations read
490 of 490
Citing cases (total)
1,320
Treatment dates
2024
Abrogated
A reviewed court treats this case as abrogated by later authority. Christopher Shorter v. United States is abrogated. All 490 flagged citations have been read.
More on how this was screened

Fisher v. Hollingsworth supplied the one confirmed adverse treatment listed below. The other opinions applied Shorter positively, cited unaffected parts of its reasoning, or reported Fisher's later act in citation-history parentheticals; none independently wounded Shorter.

Every treatment on this page is written from the citing opinion itself, with a verbatim quote, never copied from a commercial citator. A citation flagged by our screen but not shown here was read and found not to weaken this case.

1,320 later cases cite Christopher Shorter v. United States; 490 of those citations sat close to treatment language and were flagged for reading, and all of them have been read. Citations that did not sit near treatment language were not flagged and were not read one by one, so a court that weakened this case without using any of that language would not appear here.

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Treatments

Abrogated

  • The court recognized that Egbert abrogated Shorter's holding permitting an Eighth Amendment Bivens failure-to-protect claim for inmate-on-inmate violence.

    Fisher v. Hollingsworth · Third Circuit · filed

    Defendants respond that Bistrian and Shorter have been abrogated by the Supreme Court’s later decision in Egbert v. Boule. We agree. ... Because Bistrian and Shorter took a more lenient approach than Egbert, we now recognize their abrogation. ... Applying Egbert to the facts of this appeal, we hold that there is no implied constitutional damages action against federal officials who fail to protect prisoners from the criminal acts of their fellow inmates.
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