Howell v. Evans

How courts have described this case

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

• The failure of medical personnel to pursue alternative means of treating inmate’s condition does not “rise beyond negligence to the level of [deliberate indifference].”
• “[T]he mere negligent diagnosis or treatment of a patient does not constitute deliberate indifference.”
• “As the party at issue here is a corporation contracting with the state, the relevant ‘state law’ for policymaking determinations are the contracts between [the corporation], the state, and [the corporation’s employees].”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).