State v. Hernandez Cisneros

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that chest pain 9 was sufficiently serious to satisfy the objective prong independently of a subsequent heart attack
• recognizing that “there is little doubt that deliberate indifference to an inmate’s serious medical need is a clearly established constitutional right”
• holding that even a physician’s grossly negligent medical judgment is not subject to scrutiny if the prisoner’s need for medical treatment was not obvious
• holding that a nurse had failed to fulfill her gatekeeping duties when she “completely refused to assess or diagnose [the inmate’s] medical condition at all”
• holding that plaintiff may show a delay in medical treatment resulted in “substantial harm” by providing specific evidence that the delay “caused either unnecessary pain or a worsening of [the] condition”
• concluding that evidence of a nurse’s complete refusal to assess or diagnose inmate’s medical condition could amount to deliberate indifference so as to defeat summary judgment in her favor

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).