Callahan v. Poppell

How courts have described this case

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• noting that “a prisoner must have suffered ‘acts or omissions sufficiently harmful to evidence deliberate indifference to serious medical needs’ ” (quoting Estelle v. Gamble, 429 U.S. 97, 106, 97 S.Ct. 285, 50 L.Ed.2d 251 (1976))
• acknowledging that Oklahoma has not waived sovereign immunity against § 1983 claims in federal district court and affirming district court’s dismissal of plaintiff’s official-capacity claims when plaintiff sought only damages, not prospective relief
• declining to consider claims omitted from pro se litigant’s amended pleading
• prisoners do not have an Eighth Amendment right to a particular course of treatment
• “When a suit alleges a claim against a state official in his official capacity, the real party in interest . . . is the state, and the state may raise the defense of sovereign immunity under the Eleventh Amendment.” (quotations omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).