Burden v. Ramos

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that medical condition in lawsuit challenging lapse in receipt of medications to treat high blood pressure was not the underlying high pressure but was instead “the medical consequences . . . of a three-week deprivation of [the prescribed] medicine”
• explaining that delay in treatment, rather than underlying injury, must cause “some degree of harm”
• stating that plaintiff must “offer ‘verifying medical evidence’ that the delay (rather than the inmate’s underlying condition) caused some degree of harm”
• explaining that delay in treatment, rather than underlying injury, must cause “some degree of harm”
• noting that “[t]here is no tort…without an injury…”
• “[T]here is no tort—common law, statutory, or constitutional— without an injury, actual or at least probabilistic.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).