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Eleventh Circuit· 3/30/2010

Townsend v. Jefferson County

Citations

  • 601 F.3d 1152
  • 2010 U.S. App. LEXIS 6500
  • 2010 WL 1189540

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  • holding that correctional officers weren’t deliberately indifferent to an inmate’s medical needs because they “had been told by a medical professional that Townsend was not presenting an emergency”
  • concluding a plaintiff could not show that non- medical jail officers were subjectively aware of her emergent medical condition where the officers “had been told by a medical professional that [the plaintiff] was not presenting an emergency”
  • concluding the officers were entitled to qualified immunity where the plaintiff had not “presented evidence that her 4 We also reject the correctional officers’ assertion the amended complaint did not sufficiently identify the particular actions (or lack of action
  • finding no deliberate indifference despite the prisoner’s repeated complaints of her medical needs because the deputies did not know it was emergency
  • rejecting “more than mere negligence” standard from McElligott and citing Cottrell for principle that “a claim of deliberate indifference requires proof of more than gross negligence”
  • noting a serious medical need existed where the plaintiff admitted using crack cocaine and smoking cigarettes daily during her pregnancy and experienced abdominal pain and vaginal bleeding for over eight hours

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Judges: Carnes, Pryor, Stagg

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