McGowan v. Hulick

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• recognizing that “the length of delay that is tolerable depends on the seriousness of the condition and the ease of providing treatment”
• noting that doctors can be deliberately indifferent when they delay or deny access to a specialist
• noting that delaying treatment can violate the Constitution if it “unnecessarily prolonged an inmate’s pain”
• finding that a three-month delay after the plaintiff complained of dental pain supported a deliberate indifference claim
• explaining that a prison medical director could act with deliberate indifference where he “was aware of the severity of [the plaintiff’s] dental problems yet refused to approve a dental visit”
• stating that “negligence, even gross negligence does not violate the Constitution.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).