Louis J. Clay, Jr. v. State of Mississippi

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• analyzing a prison official’s safety concerns under the subjective component of the deliberate indifference analysis
• “[A] 37 Case: 19-10798 Document: 00515925058 Page: 38 Date Filed: 07/02/2021 No. 19-10798 knowing failure to execute policies necessary to an inmate’s safety may be evidence of an officer’s deliberate indifference.”
• “Suicide is an objectively serious harm implicating the state’s duty to provide adequate medical care.”
• “Medical treatment that is merely unsuccessful or negligent does not constitute deliberate indifference.”
• an inmate’s disagreement with his medical treatment does not constitute deliberate indifference
• “ ‘Deliberate indifference is an extremely high standard to meet.’ ”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).