Carolyn Graham, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Terance Anthony Graham v. County of Washtenaw

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• holding that a plaintiff asserting a § 1983 claim on the basis of a municipal custom or policy must identify the policy, connect the policy to the municipality itself, and show that the particular injury was incurred because of the execution of that policy
• the Fourteenth Amendment “affords pretrial detainees a due process right to adequate medical treatment that is analogous to the Eighth Amendment rights of prisoners”
• “[T]he fact that alternative procedures might have better addressed [a prisoner’s] particular needs does not show that the [County was] deliberately indifferent to his medical needs.’” (citation and footnote omitted)
• “Where a prisoner has received some medical attention and the dispute is over the adequacy of the treatment, federal courts are generally reluctant to second guess medical judgments and to constitutionalize claims that sound in state tort law.”
• “Where a prisoner has received some medical attention and the dispute is over the adequacy of the treatment, federal courts are generally reluctant to second guess medical judgments and to constitutionalize claims that sound in state tort law.”
• county’s reliance on medical professionals to whom it delegated inmate care

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).