Eric A. Brice v. Virginia Beach Correctional Center Frank Drew, Sheriff John Nieves, Deputy Sheriff, and City of Virginia Beach

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• noting that the risk must be “so obvious . . . that the [officer] did know of it because he could not have failed to know of it.”
• finding that trauma and pain as a result of a four-hour delay in treating injured jaw was a serious medical need
• noting that the risk must be “so obvious . . . that the [officer] did know of it because he could not have failed to know of it.”
• “[A] prison official cannot hide behind an excuse that he was unaware of a risk, no matter how obvious.”
• “[t]o establish ... a constitutional violation, a claimant must prove that, objectively assessed, he had a ‘sufficiently serious’ medical need to require medical treatment” (citations omitted)
• “[D]eliberate indifference in this context lies somewhere between negligence and purpose or knowledge: namely, recklessness of the subjective type used in criminal law.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).