Detainee died from asthma related breathing difficulties; observing detainee having breathing problems over course of six and a half hours and deciding not to request emergency assistance, where detainee had an inhaler and was within bounds of prescribed breathing treatments, was not so deliberately indifferent to medical needs as to amount to a constitutional violation.
Not clearly established that officer acted with deliberate indifference to arrestee's complaints that handcuffs were causing numbness and injury if he drove about 25 minutes to jail where arrestee could receive medical attention, instead of stopping on road or driving to a nearby hospital for medical assistance; qualified immunity.
Intentional maneuver during high-speed chase that caused motorist's vehicle to spin out and collide with tree placed motorist in “custody” and created duty under Due Process Clause to provide medical care for injuries; clearly established, when officers purposely cause car accident, duty arises under Due Process Clause to provide medical care to persons injured as a result.
Jail detainee died from methamphetamine overdose, jury could find that nurse who failed to
render any treatment was deliberately indifferent to need for medical attention but not
that deputies acted unconstitutionally; plaintiff not required to prove that nurse was
aware that detainee had ingested lethal dose of meth if need for medical attention
based on severe symptoms was obvious even to non-medical professionals.
Not clearly established that officer acted with deliberate indifference to transported arrestee's complaints that handcuffs were causing numbness and injury if he drove about 25 minutes to jail where arrestee could receive medical attention, instead of stopping on road or driving to a nearby hospital for medical assistance.
Vacating and amending J.K.J. v. City of San Diego, 17 F.4th 11247 (9th Cir. 2021), previously reported in Actionable Conduct on Nov. 23, 2021.
Inmate had a variety of pains and ailments and was later diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia; court holds he did not manifest signs of serious medical need that would be sufficiently obvious to jail personnel without medical training, hence no violation of rights; “if medical professionals failed to grasp the seriousness of his condition, prison staff without medical training could not have been expected to do so.
Convicted prisoner’s medical concerns and symptoms, staph infection, body rash, cardiac issues, fatigue, dizziness, cardiac pain, night sweats, blurred vision, and bleeding gums, did not put non-medical personnel on notice that he was suffering from a serious medical need that was not being addressed, although he was later diagnosed with severe anemia and leukemia.
Correction officers did not violate rights of pretrial detainee, who had gastrointestinal health issues from earlier gastric bypass surgery and had been placed on a specialized diet and prescribed antacids, for failing to call 911 in response to her initial complaints of abdominal pain, although she was scheduled to meet with doctor the next day, and when she did, he sent her to a hospital where she had surgery for a perforated ulcer; citing previous decision in Browner v. Scott Co., 14 F.4th 585 (6th Cir.
Right to be free from deliberate indifference to symptoms including psychosis, fecal incontinence, and catatonia was clearly established; fact issues precluded summary judgment in favor of nurse, county, and sheriff.