Hartley v. General Hospital

How courts have described this case

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

• “While [the defendant] may have exercised poor judgment in temporarily leaving his post, deliberate indifference describes a state of mind more blameworthy than negligence.”
• “Evidence that a risk was obvious or otherwise must have been known to a defendant may be sufficient to make this showing.”
• “While [the defendant] may have exercised poor judgment in temporarily leaving his post, ‘deliberate indifference describes a state of mind more blameworthy than negligence.’” (quoting Farmer, 511 U.S. at 835)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).