Peek v. Slifer

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that a prisoner’s dissatisfaction with “the defendants’ decision to respond to his back pain with over-the-counter medication . . . does not implicate Eighth Amendment concerns”
• affirming dismissal of complaint as “clearly frivolous” where a prisoner alleged that he suffered pain from serious back problems due to defendants’ refusal to provide him anything beyond over-the-counter pain medication
• prisoner’s dissatisfaction with the decision of the prison doctor and nurses to respond to his back pain with over-the-counter medications did not implicate Eighth Amendment concerns
• a complaint reflecting that prisoner was dissatisfied with the decision of prison doctor and nurses to respond to his back pain with over the counter medications did not implicate Eighth Amendment concerns
• “A cursory reading of Moses’s complaint reflects that he is dissatisfied with the defendants’ decision to respond to his back pain with over-the-counter medications. This dissatisfaction does not implicate Eighth Amendment concerns.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).