Hayes v. Snyder

How courts have described this case

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• holding that defendants were not deliberately indifferent because they “investigated [the plaintiff’s] complaints and referred them to the responsible medical providers”
• stating that the plaintiff “does not need to prove that his complaints of severe pain were ‘literally ignored’ ”
• noting that a prison official might not have been entitled to summary judgment if he “had ignored [the prisoner’s] complaints entirely”
• reversing summary judgment in favor of the defendant where he continued to monitor the inmate’s treatment after the initial in-person examinations
• noting that the existence of an injury “that significantly affects an individual’s daily activities” or that causes “chronic and substantial pain” indicates that a prisoner has a serious medical need
• finding that officials who quickly contacted medical professionals, and did not have obvious reason to believe their responses were inadequate, did enough to investigate an inmate’s grievance of a serious medical situation

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).