Nissan North America, Inc. v. Texas Department of Motor Vehicles

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that a failure to assess patient meaningfully might rise to level of deliberate indifference
• holding that Wellpath employees working in state facilities are “categorically ineligible for qualified immunity”
• applying the policy purposes behind qualified immunity to the case at hand despite finding “no sufficient historical traditional of immunity at common law”
• emphasizing that unsuccessful medical treatment does not constitute deliberate indifference
• determining “clearly established” law based on “the law of this circuit”
• “Thus, the question is whether Sanchez has presented evidence from which a reasonable jury could infer that Oliver knew Gauna was at risk of suicide and ignored the risk.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).