Roe v. Elyea

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the failure to conduct an individualized assessment of a prisoner's needs may violate the Eighth Amendment
• holding that the failure to conduct an individualized assessment of a prisoner’s needs may violate the Eighth Amendment
• holding that “the Constitution is violated” where “administrative convenience and cost … are considered to the exclusion of reasonable medical judgment about inmate health”
• holding that to succeed in §1983 suit, a plaintiff must prove that any alleged violation caused injury or damages
• concluding that jury could reasonably find that medical director acted with deliberate indifference when, in formulating HCV treatment policy, he “was motivated by administrative convenience rather than patient welfare”
• explaining that qualified immunity is overcome only if “[t]he official … [had] ‘fair warning’ [from precedent] that his conduct [was] unconstitutional”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).