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Lewis v. Cain, LA, Opinion, Failure to Provide Adequate Medical Care, 2023

Brief • November 6, 2023

Filed under: Systemic Medical Neglect, Failure to Treat

the pulmonologist, twice the pulmonologist ordered a biopsy which the patient never received. The pulmonologist charted his frustration: “the biopsy didn’t occur, what gives?” *** “strongly suggest immediate IR ...

Ut Doc, Performance Audit, 2006

Publication

Filed under: Guards/Staff

to make the quality of work experience improve, what would it be?” Thirty-four percent of written responses indicated that management could make various improvements. Some responses dealt with concerns ...

Telfair v. Gilberg-868 F. Supp. 1396 (SD GA 1994)

Case • 1994

, but the message did not reach the kitchen until it had closed. Both the night staff and Officer Brian Saxon offered him a bag lunch instead, but Telfair refused, stating that he wanted what everyone else had ...

McCormack v. Cheers-818 F. Supp. 584 (SD NY 1993)

Case • 1993

corrections officers at the Green Haven Correctional Facility ("Green Haven") detected a "strong oder [sic] of what appeared to be marijuana" emanating from the cell of inmate Christopher McCormack. Colucci Aff ...

Young v. Keohane-809 F. Supp. 1185 (MD PA 1992)

Case • 1992

be sufficiently clear that a reasonable official would understand that what he is doing violates that right. This does not mean, however, that an official will be protected from suit unless the very action ...

Mauro v. Arpaio-188 F.3d 1054 (9th Cir. 1999) (en banc)

Case • 1999

arbiters of what constitutes the best solution to every administrative problem, thereby unnecessarily perpetuating the involvement of the federal courts in affairs of prison administration." Id. (citations ...

Riley v. Kurtz-893 F. Supp. 709 (ED MI 1995)

Case • 1995

him what the problem was. Plaintiff replied that Kurtz was the problem. A short while later, Riley received a pass to go to the law library. He alleges that he was in the library for about an hour when ...

Morales Feliciano v. Rosello Gonzalez-124 F.Supp.2d 774 (D PR 2000)

Case • 2000

wasted without bringing about any substantial and enduring change in the reality of daily life in Puerto Rico's prisons. What little has been done, the Court [**3] finds, is only the result of the Court's ...

Bell v. Johnson-308 F.3d 594 (6th Cir. 2002)

Case • 2002

boasted about the suit, and because the prisoners on the floor had discussed the suit by shouting from cell to cell. In response to what he perceived to be undue harassment by several of the prison guards ...

Mabra v. Schmidt-356 F.Supp. 620 (WD WI 1973).

Case • 1973

. There are rules which determine how the trial court is to administer such a lawsuit: whether certain presumptions are to be recognized; to which party the court is to assign the burden of persuasion; and in what ...

Board v. Farnham-394 F.3d 469 (7th Cir. 2005)

Case • 2005

clear that a reasonable official would understand that what he is doing violates that right." Anderson, 483 U.S. at 640. To that extent, government officials are considered "on notice" that conduct ...

Bounds v. Smith-430 U.S. 817, 97 S.Ct. 1491, 52 L.Fd.2d 72 (1977).

Case • 1977

decentralized prison system.*fn3 Rather than attempting "to dictate precisely what course the State should follow," the court "charge[d] the Department [ 430 U.S. Page 819] of Correction with the task ...

Jones v. North Carolina Prisoners' Labor Union, In-433 U.S. 119, 97 S.Ct. 2532, 53 L.Ed.2d 629 (1977)

Case • 1977

, however, gave particular emphasis to what it viewed as appellants' tolerance of membership by inmates in the Union as undermining appellants' position. It viewed a system which permitted inmate "membership ...

Saxbe v. Washington Post-94 S.Ct. 2811 (1974)

Case • 1974

of that inmate. This limitation on visitations is justified by what the Court of Appeals acknowledged as "the truism that prisons are institutions where public access is generally limited." 161 U. S. App. D.C ...

Banks v. Beard-399 F.3d 134 (3rd Cir. 2005)

Case • 2005

these things, these privileges," and his explanation that "we're very limited... in what we can and cannot deny or give to an inmate, and these are some of the items that we feel are legitimate as incentives ...

Beerheide v. Suthers-286 F.3d 1179 (10th Cir. 2002)

Case • 2002

of exercising the right are available notwithstanding the policy or regulation; (3) what effect accommodating the exercise of the right would have on guards, other prisoners, and prison resources generally ...

Daskalea v. District of Columbia-227 F.3d 433 (DC Cir. 2000)

Case • 2000

workers were in attendance. [27] Then, someone called out Daskalea's name. Fearing what might be coming, plaintiff fled back to her cell, but was unable to close the door. A few minutes later ...

Mickens-Thomas v. Vaughn-321 F.3d 374 (3rd Cir. 2003)

Case • 2003

risk score by 3 and placed him in an unfavorable category for release. The Board did not indicate why it made this material alteration to what appears to be a boilerplate risk- assessment protocol ...

Polk County Sheriff v. Iowa District Court for Po-594 N.W.2d 421 (Iowa 1999)

Case • 1999

, as here, the issue is not whether but when, for how long, and at what cost to the individual that life may be briefly extended." Superintendent of Belchertown v. Saikewicz, 370 N.E.2d 417, 425-26 (Mass ...

Gibson v. Trant-58 S.W.3d 103 (Tenn. 2001)

Case • 2001

-conviction relief in order to maintain a legal malpractice action against his defense lawyer (what is often referred to as a "criminal malpractice" action). The trial court held that he must. Since ...