Darnell Cooper and Anthony Davis v. Michael Casey

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that “minor aches and pains”—“the sorts of ailments for which many people who are not in prison do not seek medical attention”—do not constitute an objectively serious risk of harm.
• holding that application of the PLRA to pre- enactment work “would attach (without clear indication of congressional intent to do so) new legal consequences to completed conduct, namely the Services rendered by the plaintiffs’ counsel in advance of the passage of the new Act”
• explaining that “minor aches and pains do not rise to the level of a serious medical condition”
• explaining that “minor aches and pains” do not rise to the level of a serious medical condition”
• noting that “minor aches and pains”—“the sorts of ailments for which many people who are not in prison do not seek medical attention”—do not constitute an objectively serious risk of harm
• stating that a prison medical staff’s refusal to treat minor “ailments for which many people who are not in prison do not seek medical attention‐does not by its refusal violate the Constitution”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).