Brittany N. Jones v. Cattaraugus-Little Valley Central School District

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that Farmer’s subjective standard “is meant to prevent the constitutionalization of medical malpractice claims”
• holding that “careless[] or inefficaciousl[]” treatment “does not rise to the level of a constitutional violation”
• holding that a prisoner “had a clearly established constitutional right to be protected from the known risks of suicide and to have his serious medical needs attended to”
• noting that a physician cannot \do[ ] less than [his] training indicate[s] [is] necessary\ (second alteration in original) (citation omitted)
• noting that a prison medical official who merely provides careless or inefficacious treatment has not been deliberately indifferent to a prisoner’s needs
• noting that a \prison inmate has [an] Eighth Amendment right [to] be free from deliberate indifference to serious psychiatric needs\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).