Gleich v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that delayed treatment of an injury can constitute deliberate indifference if it “exacerbate[s]” the injury or “unnecessarily prolong[s] pain”
• acknowledging that “[i]t is true, as we held in Glisson, that the decision not to have a policy can itself be a policy for Monell purposes”
• explaining that a plaintiff cannot establish an Eighth Amendment violation merely by alleging he “believes the treatment was ineffective or disagrees with the doctor’s chosen course of treatment.”
• noting that “a physician’s delay, even if brief, in referring an inmate to a specialist in the face of a known need for specialist treatment may also reflect deliberate indifference”
• “Persisting in treatment known to be ineffective can constitute deliberate indifference, provided that the doctor was subjectively aware that the treatment plan was ineffective.”
• “Persisting in treatment known to be ineffective can constitute deliberate indifference, provided that the doctor was subjectively aware that the treatment plan was ineffective.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).