Miguel Burgos v. State of Florida

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• concluding that defendants who had no control over scheduling appointments with outside provider could not be held liable under section 1983 for failing to schedule appointment or failing to “nag” the individuals responsible for scheduling appointments
• concluding that defendants who had no control over scheduling appointments with outside provider could not be held liable under section 1983 for failing to schedule appointment or failing to “nag” the individuals 13 responsible for scheduling appointments
• affirming summary judgment on year-long delay of nasal surgery for detainee’s broken nose where defendants did not have authority to schedule the surgery
• pretrial detainee’s “claim of deficient medical treatment” is “analyzed under the Fourteenth Amendment, rather than under the Eighth Amendment standard applied to prisoners”
• “Because the medical defendants had no control over the scheduling of the appointments, Turner cannot claim that their failure to schedule him for surgery, or their failure to nag the residents, constituted objectively unreasonable conduct.”

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