James E. Pinkston v. Anthony Madry and Janiene Grisselle

How courts have described this case

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• observing that “conduct that simply amounts to ‘mere negligence or inadvertence’ is insufficient to justify the imposition of liability.”
• finding no deliberate indifference where the inmate himself delayed in seeking care, and then was repeatedly uncooperative with the care offered
• finding no deliberate indifference when incarcerated individual refused to take preliminary test before beginning treatment
• affirming judgment in favor of medical personnel on inmate’s claim of deliberate indifference, where the inmate was the sole cause of delay in treatment
• granting summary judgment to defendants on prisoner medical-care claim when the prisoner “failed to formally request medical attention”
• finding no deliberate indifference when incarcerated individual refused offered medical care

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).