Nathaniel Williams v. Leon J. Vincent, Superintendent of Green Haven Correctional Facility

How courts have described this case

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• holding that medical personnel cannot “simply resort to an easier course of treatment that they know is ineffective.”
• indicating that deliberate indifference will not be found if treatment requested was “impossible under the circumstances” or not “practicable”
• concluding no plausible failure-to-protect allegation based on a corrections officer’s “splitsecond [sic] decision to jump back when he suddenly perceived danger to both [plaintiff] and himself”
• finding deliberate indifference where prison doctors chose to close a wound caused by the severing of plaintiff’s ear rather than attempting to reattach the organ
• finding deliberate indifference where prison doctors chose to close a wound caused by the severing of plaintiff’s ear rather than attempting to reattach the organ
• rejecting claim because it did not allege authorization of specific conduct

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).