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· 9/22/2009

Caiozzo v. Koreman

Citations

  • 581 F.3d 63
  • 2009 U.S. App. LEXIS 20928
  • 2009 WL 2998338

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that a person detained before trial may bring a deliberate indifference claim only if she establishes that the defendant knowingly disregarded a risk of harm to the plaintiff
  • finding, with respect to the objective prong, that “there is no dispute that Caioz-zo had a serious medical condition” where he suffered from alcohol withdrawal
  • noting the lack of a dispute that severe withdrawal from alcohol had constituted a serious medical condition
  • applying standard from Eighth Amendment jurisprudence to pretrial detainee's due process claims regarding medical care
  • finding the plaintiff failed to establish deliberate indifference where “[m]ost of the evidence offered ... was in support of the argument that [the defendant] should have been aware that [he] was in immediate danger,” not “that [the defendant] was actually aware of that immediate danger”
  • \[T]he standard for deliberate indifference is the same under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment as it is under the Eighth Amendment.\

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Judges: Sack, Katzmann, Kelly

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