Paul Anthony Cooper v. S. Dyke, Officer J.R. Markert, Officer C. Morseberger, Officer, Defendants- (Two Cases)

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• recognizing that “government officials who ignore indications that a prisoner’s or pretrial detainee’s initial medical treatment was inadequate can be liable for deliberate indifference to medical needs”
• holding that the paramedics’ negligence “could not have constituted an ‘intervening’ cause” where the plaintiffs “claim was based on defendants’ deliberate indifference to his ... suffering after the time of the initial paramedic exam.”
• emphasizing that “government officials who ignore indications that a prisoner’s or pretrial detainee’s initial medical treatment was inadequate can be liable for deliberate indifference to medical needs”
• explaining that a “[s]tate does not acquire the power to punish with which the Eighth Amendment is concerned until after it has secured a formal adjudication of guilt”
• noting that the Supreme Court in Smith\specifically held that there 8 is no requirement that the standard for punitive damages be higher than the standard for determining liability\
• determining that intense pain from an untreated bullet wound is sufficiently serious

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