Farmer, Dee v. Moritsugu, Kenneth

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• holding that Bureau of Prisons medical director who failed to respond to specific complaints by prisoner was protected by qualified immunity
• distinguishing interlocutory appeals of qualified immunity raising abstract legal issues from appeals challenging the sufficiency of the evidence
• finding “untenable” the notion that personal liability could attach to the Bureau of Prisons Medical Director in Washington, D.C. “overseeing operations in facilities nationwide” for medical decisions made and redressable at the local level
• rejecting an argument that would expose the Medical Director of Bureau of Prisons to liability “for all alleged mistakes in the individual diagnoses of every inmate in the BOP system, simply by virtue of an inmate’s complaint”

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