In re Edelen

How courts have described this case

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• failure to treat toenail fungus that caused burning, itching and bleeding 6 did not amount to a serious medical condition within the meaning of the Eighth Amendment
• “[Prisoner’s] personal opinion that his care was substandard . . . raises claims of state-law medical malpractice, not constitutionally defective medical care indifferent to [prisoner’s] serious medical needs.”
• delay in treating Plaintiff’s skin infection was not a serious medical need in the absence of evidence that the delay could have led to “severe consequences, such as a systemic infection, amputation of a limb, or even death”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).