State v. Wandell

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that the plaintiff “needed to ‘place verifying medical evidence in the record to establish the detrimental effect of the delay in medical treatment’”
• holding prisoner could not establish objective component of deliberate indifference test where doctors ordered tests, identified the problem, and followed common treatment plan
• reasoning that plaintiff could not make out objective element of deliberate indifference claim where the inadequate medical care he received was in part attributable to the fact that he “affirmatively declined treatment at one point”
• providing private party does not become a state actor “simply by caring for prisoners”
• providing “private parties do not automatically become ‘state’ actors simply by caring for prisoners”
• noting Eighth Amendment claim for “grossly inadequate medical care” typically requires expert testimony

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).