Christopher Pyles v. Magid Fahim

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a “[d]isagreement between a prisoner and his doctor, or even between two medical professionals, about the proper course of treatment generally is insufficient, by itself, to establish an Eighth Amendment violation.”
• holding that a wet stairway is not a hazardous condition of confinement
• hoiding that hearsay cannot be used to defeat summary judgment
• “A prisoner may establish deliberate indifference by demonstrating that the treatment he received was ‘blatantly inappropriate.’”
• doctor not deliberately indifferent when decision to forgo MRI was “implicitly endorsed by every other doctor who examined [the plaintiff]”
• “A prisoner may establish deliberate indifference by demonstrating that the treatment he received was ‘blatantly inappropriate.’”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).