Gardner v. Moss

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the plaintiff failed to demonstrate his wounds were a serious medical need in part because the plaintiff did not allege the wounds “significantly interfered with his daily activities or caused him substantial or chronic pain”
• noting that “case law within this Circuit recognizes that depression combined with severe anxiety attacks or suicide attempts is a serious medical need” (internal quotation marks and citation omitted)
• explaining that supervisory official can be personally involved in a constitutional violation if the violation is ongoing and he takes no corrective action but is not personally involved if he learns of the violation after-the-fact
• collecting cases and finding that plaintiff’s sworn complaint and deposition testimony constituted evidence sufficient to consider for summary judgment purposes
• collecting cases for the proposition that abrasions with minor bleeding do not constitute a “serious medical need”
• failure of prison official to respond to inmate request insufficient to show personal involvement in Eighth Amendment claim

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).