People v. White (Rodney)

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• holding that \something more than mere negligence\ and \mere medical malpractice\ is necessary to establish deliberate indifference in the Fourteenth Amendment context
• explaining that conduct constituting deliberate indifference to medical needs in violation of the Eighth Amendment for convicted prisoners would also violate the Fourteenth Amendment rights of pretrial detainees
• observing that, after Darnell, “[a] plaintiff must show something more than mere negligence to establish deliberate indifference in the Fourteenth Amendment context” (citation and internal quotation marks omitted)
• noting that “[i]n most cases, the actual medical consequences that flow from the denial of care are highly relevant in determining whether the denial of treatment subjected the detainee to a significant risk of serious harm”
• applying same two-part objective/subjective standard to detainee’s claim for deliberate indifference to serious medical needs under the Fourteenth Amendment
• “A plaintiff must show something more than mere negligence to establish deliberate indifference in the Fourteenth Amendment context.”

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