Mapp v. Uphoff

How courts have described this case

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• noting that the defendant knew the inmate had a heart attack and subsequent bypass surgery because of the defendant’s inadequate treatment of his diabetes and hypertension
• reversing dismissal of Eighth Amendment claim based on alleged failure of prison officials to provide diabetic inmate special foods
• denying a motion to dismiss based on plaintiffs allegations that his heart attack was caused by inadequate medical treatment.
• “Delays that courts have found to violate the Eighth Amendment have [also] frequently involved life-threatening situations and instances in which it is apparent that delay would exacerbate the prisoner’s medical problems.”
• “Prison officials violate the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment when they act deliberately and indifferently to serious medical needs of prisoners in their custody.”
• “Prison officials violate the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment when they act deliberately and indifferently to serious medical needs of prisoners in their custody.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).