George Mandel v. John Doe (Name Unknown, an Escambia County Prison Employee), Escambia County, Florida

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• holding that a physician's assistant who \was authorized to function without any supervision or review at all\ acted as a final policymaker with respect to unsupervised medical treatment rendered to prisoners
• finding that custom dictated that physician’s assistant, and not super- vising doctor, had final policymaking authority with respect to medical decisions made at road prison
• noting that “knowledge of the need for medical care and intentional refusal to provide that care constitute deliberate indifference”
• stating that liability may attach for decisions of county officials who “possess[] the authority and responsibility for establishing final policy with respect to the issue in question”
• finding sheriff is final policymaker with regard to operation of jail and medical care provided to inmates
• noting a municipality may be liable for a single decision of a final policy maker that caused a deprivation of rights

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