Jane Ellyn Benson v. Cal Terhune, Director Susan E. Poole, Warden

How courts have described this case

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

• discussing the Third Circuit’s recognition of the right to medical information as set forth in Napoleon and describing it as a “reasonable application of Supreme Court precedent”
• discussing the Third Circuit’s recognition of the right to medical information as set forth in Napoleon and describing it as a “reasonable application of Supreme Court precedent”
• no affirmative duty for non-prescribing prison staff to provide information about medication to patient who took treatment without asking for further information
• “The due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment substantively protects a person’s rights . . . to refuse unwanted medical treatment, and to receive sufficient information to exercise these rights intelligently.” (citations omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).