De Vita v. New Jersey

How courts have described this case

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

• medical care of pre-trial detainee which is so cursory as to amount to no treatment at all may violate the Fourteenth Amendment
• county obligation to provide medical care for pre-trial detainees not extinguished by contracting out authority
• “if necessary medical treatment has been delayed for non-medical [i.e., cost-saving] reasons, a case of deliberate indifference has been made out” (citation omitted)
• county obligation to provide medical care for pre-trial detainees not extinguished by contracting out authority
• “[G]overnments, state and local, have an obligation to provide medical care to incarcerated individuals. This duty is not absolved by contracting with an entity such as Prison Health Services.”
• the government’s constitutional obligation to provide prisoners with adequate medical care is non-delegable

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).