Harrison Jolly v. John Knudsen, Correctional Medical Systems, Ara Services, Inc., and Jerry Jorgensen

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a “prisoner must show more than negligence, more even than gross negligence” to prevail on an Eighth Amendment claim
• holding that a “prisoner must show more than negligence, more even than gross negligence” to prevail on an Eighth Amendment claim
• holding that an inmate must show that he suffered from serious medical need, which prison officials knew of and deliberately ignored; mere disagreement with treatment decisions does not rise to level of constitutional violation
• stating denial of medical care claims under section 1983 require showing that defendant was aware of and deliberately indifferent to a serious medical need
• stating prisoner must show more than gross negligence and more than disagreement with treatment decisions
• “mere -10- disagreement with treatment decisions does not rise to the level of a constitutional violation”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).