Dennis Hamilton v. Roger v. Endell

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• holding that summary judgment was inappropriate “where prison officials and doctors deliberately ignored the express orders of a prisoner’s prior physician for reasons unrelated to the medical needs of the prisoner”
• holding that summary judgment was inappropriate “where prison officials and doctors deliberately ignored the express orders of a prisoner’s prior physician for reasons unrelated to the medical needs of the prisoner”
• holding that summary judgment was inappropriate “where prison officials and doctors deliberately ignored the express orders of a prisoner’s prior physician for reasons unrelated to the medical needs of the prisoner”
• stating that prisoner may demonstrate deliberate indifference if prison officials relied on 1 the contrary opinion of a non-treating physician
• holding 17 summary judgment on behalf of prison officials who forced inmate to fly “in contravention 18 of his treating physician’s specific orders” was inappropriate because the decision “could 19 have constituted deliberate indifference to his medical needs.”
• noting the good cause exception applies only “in limited circumstances, and inadvertent error or ignorance of governing rules alone will not excuse a litigant's failure to effect timely service”

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