United States v. Garcia-Alcazar

How courts have described this case

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• finding that missed doses of medication did not rise to a constitutional level because the only medical consequence that the plaintiff alleged was an anxiety attack
• affirming ruling on summary judgment where there was “no basis for finding that the treatment given [Plaintiff] was unreasonable or that the sleepiness he reported was ‘sufficiently serious’ to constitute a constitutional violation.”
• finding county jail did not show deliberate indifference to medical condition of pretrial detainee when he missed doses of medication due to inadequate monitoring and the only consequence was anxiety attack, which resulted in no physical injuries
• food served on a napkin or paper towel not deemed unconstitutionally unsanitary
• “When a prisoner alleges a temporary delay ... in the provision of otherwise adequate medical treatment, we focus on the seriousness of the particular risk of harm that resulted from the challenged delay ... rather than the prisoner’s underlying medical condition alone.”
• “When a prisoner alleges a temporary delay ... in the provision of otherwise adequate medical treatment, we focus on the seriousness of the particular risk of harm that resulted from the challenged delay ... rather than the prisoner’s underlying medical condition alone.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).