Friedberg v. Pena

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that deliberate indifference is something more akin to criminal recklessness rather than mere negligence
• noting that a delay in treating non-life-threatening but painful conditions may constitute deliberate indifference if the delay exacerbated the injury or unnecessarily prolonged an inmate’s pain
• noting the plaintiff failed to provide evidence that chronic understaffing at the health care unit harmed him
• affirming summary judgment for Wexford on claim that health care unit was chronically understaffed where there was no evidence that understaffing harmed prisoner
• nurse was not deliberately indifferent to inmate’s burst abscesses, even though she did not physically examine the plaintiff or consult a physician, because the evidence supported negligence at most
• “As a general matter, a nurse can, and indeed must, defer to a treating physician’s instructions.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).