Coppage v. Mann

How courts have described this case

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• granting summary judgment for state prison employees on inmate’s negligence claims
• “The doctrine of sovereign immunity protects the Commonwealth from claims of ordinary negligence asserted against it.”
• Virginia law shields prison officials from ordinary 6 medical negligence claims but allows claims for gross negligence
• “Yet, only negligent conduct is protected by the doctrine; acts constituting gross negligence or intentional torts are not immunized.”
• \[S]ubjective knowledge may be proved by circumstantial evidence ... [thus] 'a factfinder may conclude that a prison official knew of a substantial risk from the very fact that the risk was obvious.' \
• “Unlike deliberate indifference, gross negligence does not require a juror to find that Dr. Mann subjectively knew of a substantial risk; it is enough that Dr. Mann should have been aware of that risk.”

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