Meyer Bros. Drug Co. v. Dollar S. S. Line

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a prisoner is not entitled “to demand specific care” or “to the best care possible” but only “to reasonable measures to meet a substantial risk of serious harm”
• explaining that inmates are not entitled to demand either specific care or the best care possible
• explaining that inmates are not entitled to “demand specific care” or “the best care possible”
• explaining that inmates are neither “entitled to demand specific care [nor] entitled to the best care possible”
• contrasting a reasonable response with a plaintiff’s preferred response, in the context of an Eighth Amend- ment claim
• \Forbes is seeking a specific treatment and foolproof protection from infection. The Eight Amendment does not provide her with either.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).