Allen Quigley v. Tuong Thai

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• “a defendant denied qualified immunity may appeal only if the issue on appeal is whether the plaintiff’s facts, taken at their best, show that the defendant violated clearly established law”
• defendant’s “improper [factual] arguments and the basis of the district court’s decision do not necessarily prevent us from having jurisdiction over [his] appeal” (emphasis added)
• “A district court’s denial of qualified immunity is an appealable final decision under § 1291 only ‘to the extent that it turns on an issue of law.’”
• “One way a prison official can act with deliberate indifference is by ‘consciously exposing the patient to an excessive risk of serious harm’ while providing medical treatment.” (quoting LeMarbe v. Wisneski, 266 F.3d 429, 439 (6th Cir. 2001))
• prison doctor knew the detainee was taking two drugs and experts “state[d] that it is well known in the psychiatric profession” that the two drugs should not be administered together and, “if they are, the patient should be closely monitored for toxicity and adverse effects”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).