×
You've used up your 3 free articles for this month. Subscribe today.
Medical Evidence Required to Win Delay Claim
Loaded on Nov. 15, 1995
published in Prison Legal News
November, 1995, page 13
The court of appeals for the eighth circuit has held that in order to prevail on an eighth amendment deliberate indifference to serious medical needs claim, the prisoner plaintiff must submit verifying medical evidence at the summary judgment stage. Larry Beyerbach, a Missouri state prisoner, caught his hand in a …
Filed under:
Skeletal Injury,
Civil Procedure,
Summary Judgment,
Evidentiary Ruling,
Expert Witnesses,
Qualified Immunity.
Location:
Missouri.
Full article and associated cases available to subscribers.
As a digital subscriber to Prison Legal News, you can access full text and downloads for this and other premium content.
Already a subscriber? Login
More from this issue:
- WA Civil Commitment Law Ruled Unconstitutional
- From the Editor, by Dan Pens
- IN Passes Excrement Law
- Double Jeopardy in Prison Not Clear
- WA Doctor Fit Only for Prisoners
- Judge gets Insight on Jail Reform
- CA Prisoners Riot
- Lethal Gas Execution Cruel and Unusual, by Dale Gardner
- Billing Prisoners for Medical Care Blocks Access, by Kara Chayriques
- AZ Guards Rob and Kill
- World's Longest Held Political Prisoner Released
- Surveys
- WA DOC Gets $745,366,000, by Paul Wright
- WSR Prisoner Murdered by Neglect
- Medical Evidence Required to Win Delay Claim
- Alaska Prisoners in Exile, by Anthony Brown
- SC Takes Weights
- TX Death Row Protest
- Nevada DOC Psychologist Moonlights as Pimp
- Feeding at the Trough
- Old Friends Only, by Adrian Lomax
- AL Adds Rock Breaking to its Repertoire
- New Statewide Data Show Prison Rape a Widespread Problem
- OH Visitor Search Illegal
- Sexual Abuse in Vermont Prisons
- New Mexico Blood Money
- Qualified Immunity for Hearing Officers
- Time Barred Dismissal Reversed
- Standard for Gender Discrimination Clarified
- Detainees Entitled to Hygiene Items
- News in Brief
- TX Abolishes Furloughs
- Prisoners Entitled to Safe Jail
More from these topics:
- $2.75 Million Paid by Washington County and NaphCare for Jail Detainee’s Suicide, April 1, 2026. Naphcare, Qualified Immunity, Medical Neglect/Malpractice, Suicides, Deliberate Indifference.
- Eighth Circuit Revives Lawsuit Over Iowa Jail Detainee’s Suicide, April 1, 2026. Summary Judgment, Failure to Protect (Wrongful Death), Failure to Treat (Mental Illness), Suicides.
- $10.3 Million Paid for Teen’s Death at Kansas Juvenile Detention Facility, April 1, 2026. Restraints, Qualified Immunity, Excessive Force (Wrongful Death), 42 U.S. Code § 1983, civil action for deprivation of rights, Wrongful Use of Force.
- Eighth Circuit Rules Iowa Prisoner’s Adverse Summary Judgment Is Not a “Strike”, March 1, 2026. Filing Fees (PLRA), Frivolous Litigation (PLRA), Summary Judgment, Failure to Treat (Mental Illness), Access To Courts.
- Eighth Circuit Revives Case Against Guards Who Failed to Intervene As Chaplain Sexually Assaulted Arkansas Prisoner, March 1, 2026. Staff-Prisoner Assault, Failure to Protect (General), Prison Rape Elimination Act, Qualified Immunity, Failure to Train/Supervise.
- Sixth Circuit Revives Michigan Prisoner’s Challenge to Guard Tackle That Broke His Foot, March 1, 2026. Evidentiary Ruling (Disciplinary Hearings), Guard Brutality/Beatings, Summary Judgment, Qualified Immunity, Wrongful Use of Force.
- Louisiana Prisoner Sustains Claim Against Prison Doctor for Allowing Assignment to “Field Duty” Despite Known Ankle Injury, March 1, 2026. Inability to Work, Skeletal Injury, Summary Judgment, Qualified Immunity, Deliberate Indifference.
- Tenth Circuit Affirmed Denial of Guards Qualified Immunity in Disabled Detainee’s Fourteenth Amendment Claim, March 1, 2026. Failure to Treat, Qualified Immunity, Fourteenth Amendment, rights, 42 U.S. Code § 1983, civil action for deprivation of rights, Deliberate Indifference.
- Michigan Claws Back $1.2 Million Paid to Wrongfully Convicted Former Prisoner, Feb. 1, 2026. Police Misconduct, Wrongful Imprisonment, Qualified Immunity, Forensic Sciences, Fabrication of Evidence.
- Ninth Circuit: Notice of Appeal of Order Denying Qualified Immunity Must Be Filed Within 30 Days of Entry, Feb. 1, 2026. Liberty Interests, Evidence, Qualified Immunity, Fourteenth Amendment, rights.