Lance Jett v. M. Penner, D. Peterson, and Cheryl K. Pliler, Warden

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• holding that a claim of deliberate indifference to 15 serious medical needs requires a “serious medical need”
• holding that a supervisor who is informed of 25 an alleged constitutional violation, e.g., pursuant to reviewing an inmate’s letters, may be liable if 26 he failed to remedy it
• concluding that a doctor’s medical note stating “I reviewed xrays which showed no obvious fracture malalignment,” written after reviewing a radiology report which specifically indicated a deformity, could evidence deliberate indifference
• holding that the plaintiff 22 sufficiently pleaded his cause of action when the complaint alleged delay of two months 23 in prison staff treating him for his broken thumb and this delay resulted in further harm 24 to the plaintiff
• holding claim under which jury could infer defendant’s course of action was 17 medically unacceptable survived summary judgment
• stating that 26 “delay of, or interference with, medical treatment can also amount to deliberate 27 indifference”

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