Soskel v. Handler

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “our [i.e., the Fifth Circuit’s] decision in Easter clearly established [the plaintiff’s] rights before the [defendants] allegedly violated them”
• finding that a pretrial detainee's Fourteenth Amendment right to medical care was clearly established by , 467 F.3d 459 (5th Cir. 2006), an Eighth Amendment case
• finding that a pretrial detainee’s Fourteenth Amendment right to medical care was clearly established by Easter v. Powell, 467 F.3d 459 (5th Cir. 2006), an Eighth Amendment case
• denying summary judgment because of fact dispute over inference about clarity of need for treatment
• officers not entitled to qualified immunity where detainee overdosed on narcotics and called out for help “at least 62 times”
• “[A] serious medical need is one for which treatment has been recommended or for which the need is so apparent that even laymen would recognize that care is required.” (internal quotation marks and citation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).