Adams v. Franklin

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• finding medical condition sufficiently serious where delay in treating plaintiff with heart condition who was suffering chest pains and shortness of breath resulted in plaintiff spending “two days in intensive care” and could have resulted in death
• “[F]ictitious[-]party practice is not authorized by either the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure or any federal statute.”
• “Because Plaintiff may not obtain punitive damages from Defendants in their official capacities, the logical inference is that Plaintiff seeks punitive damages in their individual capacities.”
• where plaintiff voiced complaints about chest pain and shortness of breath, the seriousness of the medical condition should have been obvious to officers who delayed access to medical care for two hours
• an Elmore County jail pretrial detainee alleged24 that, in August 1997, in response to his requests for a doctor to evaluate his chest pains, deputies at the jail mocked him, assaulted him, threatened him, and delayed necessary medical care

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