Robertson v. Ramsay

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that physician’s failure to refer patient to medical provider capable of treating the condition could constitute deliberate indifference
• alleging that Dr. Amonette “designed treatment guidelines for inmates with hepatitis C that unconstitutionally excluded Pfaller from receiving treatment”
• denying qualified immunity where a doctor ignored his supervisor’s directives to monitor an inmate’s hepatitis for two and a half years
• affirming denial of prison physician’s motion for summary judgment on qualified immunity
• “Because ‘adequate . . . medical care’ is a basic condition of humane confinement, a prison official’s ‘deliberate indifference to serious medical needs of prisoners constitutes the unnecessary and wanton infliction of pain proscribed by the Eighth Amendment.’”
• “Because ‘adequate . . . medical care’ is a basic condition of humane confinement, a prison official’s ‘deliberate indifference to serious medical needs of prisoners constitutes the unnecessary and wanton infliction of pain proscribed by the Eighth Amendment.’”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).