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Single Incident of Deliberate Indifference Insufficient to Establish Policy or Custom
Loaded on Aug. 15, 2012
published in Prison Legal News
August, 2012, page 41
The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed a district court’s grant of summary judgment on the grounds that the plaintiff’s evidence, which indicated a single case of a constitutional violation, did not prove a private medical provider had a policy, practice or custom of deliberate indifference.The appellate ruling ...
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