Clarkson v. Coughlin

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that he failure to provide interpreters during medical treatment violated the Eighth Amendment where that communication was \essential to the efficacy of the treatment in question\
• holding that hearing-impaired inmates are considered “qualified individuals” under the ADA
• finding that long term state inmates were entitled to sign- language interpreters for reception, testing, and classification process resulting in permanent assignments to prisons
• long-term state inmates entitled to sign-language interpreters for extensive reception, testing, and classification process resulting in permanent assignments to particular prisons
• \Prison inmates retain a constitutional right to privacy concerning medical information about them.\
• “The Rehabilitation Act has been held to apply to prisoner claims as a general matter.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).