Jennings v. General Medical Corp.

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that plaintiff, who suffered from infected tooth, swelling, and extreme pain, alleged facts that could support § 1983 claim
• holding plaintiff’s claim that jailor knew of prisoner’s pain from infected tooth but refused to provide dental care for up to three weeks sufficient to state an Eighth Amendment deprivation
• claim stated where the defendant “knew of the pain [the plaintiff] was suffering . . ., observed swelling in [his] face, and still refused to provide dental care for him for up to three weeks”
• serious medical condition due to infected tooth
• “severe pain” due to infected tooth

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).