Clarke v. Laborers' International Union of North America

How courts have described this case

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• finding deliberate indifference where prison procedures resulted in interminable delays and outright denials of medical care to suffering inmates
• affirming district court’s injunctive relief directing prison authorities to implement specific reforms to the process by which medical care is sought and administered at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility
• institutional practices need not be defective in maximum degree before eighth amendment violation is found
• district court permissibly deviated from customary “hands-off attitude” toward daily problems of prison administration where constitutional right to adequate medical care was at stake
• “[A] series of incidents closely related in time ... may disclose a pattern of conduct amounting to deliberate indifference to the medical needs of prisoners.”
• prison officials subjected inmates to grave and unnecessary risks, prison officials need not wait until an epileptic chokes on her tongue to act

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).