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· 5/23/2011

Alspaugh v. McConnell

Citations

  • 643 F.3d 162
  • 2011 U.S. App. LEXIS 10353
  • 2011 WL 1938131

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • providing that medical care that is “so woefully inadequate as to amount to no treatment at all” violates the Eighth Amendment
  • finding genuine issue of material fact as to whether prison officials applied force maliciously and sadistically to cause harm where parties disputed whether prisoner was resisting when two correctional officers beat him
  • “Where a prisoner alleges only that the medical care he received was inadequate, ‘federal courts are generally reluctant to second guess medical judgments.’”
  • defendants not deliberately indifferent when plaintiff received “extensive treatment” for his injuries
  • “Only those specific objections to the magistrate’s report made to the district court will be preserved for appellate review; making some objections but failing to raise others will not preserve all the objections a party may have.”
  • “Only those specific objections to the magistrate’s report made to the district court will be preserved for appellate review; making some objections but failing to raise others will not preserve all the objections a party may have.”

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Judges: Martin, Siler, Rogers

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