Self v. Oliva

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a claim for gatekeeper liability is actionable “where the need for additional treatment [] is obvious”
• holding that the subjective component cannot be satisfied if the medical professional “provides a level of care consistent with the symptoms presented by the inmate.”
• holding that Farmer’s “subjective component is not satisfied[ ] absent an extraordinary degree of neglect”
• holding that Farmer’s “subjective component is not satisfied[ ] absent an extraordinary degree of neglect”
• concluding that where a prison doctor responds to an “obvious risk” with “patently unreasonable” treatment it is appropriate to infer conscious disregard
• recognizing that an Eighth Amendment claim may arise where “a medical professional completely denies care although presented with recognizable symptoms which potentially create a medical emergency”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).