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· 1/11/2006

County of El Paso v. Dorado

Citations

  • 180 S.W.3d 854
  • 2005 WL 3254498

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that actions and decisions by officials that are merely inept, erroneous, ineffective, or negligent do not amount to deliberate indifference
  • holding that actions and decisions by officials that are merely inept, erroneous, ineffective, or negligent do not amount to deliberate indifference
  • holding that a prisoner’s right to be free from jail officials’ deliberate indifference to their serious medical needs springs from both procedural and substantive due process
  • holding that an inmate’s disagreement with the kind of medical treatment he received is insufficient as a matter of law to state an Eighth Amendment violation
  • holding that an inmate = s disagreement with the kind of medical treatment he received is insufficient as a matter of law to state an Eighth Amendment violation
  • holding that a prisoner = s right to be free from jail officials = deliberate indifference to their serious medical needs springs from both procedural and substantive due process

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Judges: Barajas, McClure, Chew

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