Easter v. Powell

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a delay in medical care must cause “substantial harm” to be a constitutional violation
• holding that there was an Eighth Amendment liability where the prison nurse offered non treatment options to a patient with a history of cardiac problems who was experiencing chest pains
• holding that medical treatment that is impossible to conduct is not medical treatment
• explaining that “in the light of pre-existing law the unlawfulness must be apparent” (emphasis added)
• finding “substantial harm” prong met based on severe chest pain suffered during period of time in which official refused to treat inmate
• finding knowledge of risk based on combination of known heart condition, complaints of chest pain, and request for medication

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).