Dotson v. Correctional Medical Services

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• holding that an ankle sprain with soft-tissue swelling and inability to bear weight did not rise to the level of a serious medical need
• “Plaintiff's ankle sprain does not rise to the level of a serious medical need, and, therefore, he has not met the objective component necessary to establish a violation of the Eighth Amendment.”
• “Plaintiff’s ankle sprain does not rise to the level of a serious medical need, and, therefore, he has not met the objective component necessary to establish a violation of the Eighth Amendment”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).