Langford v. Norris

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a supervisor who received inmates' \complaints about receiving deficient medical care\ could be liable for his failure to ensure that the inmates received adequate treatment
• holding that a supervisor who received inmates’ “complaints about receiving deficient medical care” could be liable for his failure to ensure that the inmates received adequate treatment
• holding that if director of department of corrections knew plaintiffs’ serious medical needs were not being adequately treated yet remained indifferent, he could be held personally liable
• concluding that facts established a violation of inmate’s rights under the Eighth Amendment where “a lapse in treatment . . . led to, or perhaps merely exacerbated the effects of, a condition called ‘Charcot foot’”
• noting that a supervisor “cannot be held liable under § 1983 on a theory of respondeat superior.”
• noting that the interlocutory appeal of a denial of qualified immunity “extends only to abstract issues of law”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).