Monmouth County Correctional Institutional Inmates v. William Lanzaro

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that mere allegations of malpractice do not raise issues of constitutional import
• explaining that a medical need is serious “if denial of or a delay in treatment causes the inmate ‘to suffer a life-long handicap or permanent loss’”
• stating to establish deliberate indifference “knowledge of the need for medical care” must be accompanied by the intentional refusal to provide that care
• “[W]hen medical care is provided, we presume that the treatment of a prisoner is proper absent evidence that it violates professional standards of care.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).