Court Opinion

ID: 9694763
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-25 17:54:10.148115+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:20:05.220371
License: Public Domain

D. C. Kolenda, J.
(concurring). I agree completely with Judge Jansen’s opinion and have signed it without reservation. A jury could easily conclude that locking plaintiff in a cell with a mass murderer and then, in ways that were plainly visible to plaintiff, laughing at her terror, if that happened as claimed by plaintiff, thereby communicating to her that she was at the mercy of a murderer, was behavior that is utterly intolerable in a civilized community. I write separately to respond to the dissent’s complaint that there is an inconsistency between that holding and the other holdings in Judge Jansen’s opinion. There is not. Part hi of the opinion is based on traditional tort analysis. Parts i and ii involve constitutional torts that are unique and involve standards not applicable to common-law torts. Far more needs to be *163proved to establish the former. Accordingly, that a set of facts does not prove the former does not mean that it cannot prove the latter.