Miguel Perez v. James Fenoglio

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that a defendant’s alleged refusal or declination to exercise the authority of his office can serve as evidence of deliberate disregard
• reversing the dismissal of a prisoner’s deliberate indifference claims against prison officials who received numerous highly detailed complaints about the refusal of medical care
• explaining that we construe pro se complaints liberally
• \A delay in treatment may show deliberate indifference if it exacerbated the inmate's injury or unnecessarily prolonged his pain.\
• delay in treating even non-life-threatening but painful conditions may amount to deliberate indifference where it exacerbates an injury or unnecessarily prolongs pain
• an administrator cannot turn a blind eye to knowledge of an ongoing harm, and they cannot entirely shirk the duty to render aid

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).