Carl C. Coppinger v. Gene Townsend, M.D., and Wayne K. Patterson

How courts have described this case

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

• “A difference of opinion between a physician and a patient does not give rise to a constitutional right or sustain a claim under § 1983.”
• prisoner’s right is to medical care—not to type or scope of medical care he desires and difference of opinion between a physician and a patient does not give rise to a constitutional right or sustain a claim under § 1983
• prisoner’s right is to medical care—not to type or scope of medical care he desires and difference of opinion between a physician and a patient does not give rise to a constitutional right or sustain a claim under § 1983

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).