Luckinbill v. United States

How courts have described this case

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• stating that propensity to harm oneself or attempt suicide is “undoubtedly a serious medical condition”
• declining to consider second inquiry of objective component because “plaintiff’s claim fail[ed] on the first subpart of the objective prong[.]”
• dismissing an Eighth Amendment deliberate indifference claim but noting that “[a] propensity to attempt suicide or harm oneself is undoubtedly a serious medical condition” that must be addressed
• defendant personally involved where defendant interviewed plaintiff in connection with allegedly discriminatory mental health treatment
• no deliberate indifference where prison authorities reacted to plaintiff’s mental illness and self-harm, even if not in fashion plaintiff preferred
• “[Plaintiff] is not entitled under the Eighth Amendment to the best treatment available; he is merely entitled to ‘reasonable care.’”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).