Merritt v. Athens Clarke County

How courts have described this case

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• “under Estelle, the constitutional violation of ‘deliberate indifference’ can be established only after determining two components: (1) whether evidence of a serious medical need existed, and (2) whether the defendant’s response to that need amounted to deliberate indifference”
• lack of knowledge of medical needs eliminates § 1983 liability
• lack of knowledge of medical needs eliminates § 1983 liability

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).