U.S., THE FATHER v. DEPT. OF CHILDREN & FAMILIES

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a cursory instruction to ice an injury was “medical treatment” sufficient to defeat a claim of deliberate indifference
• noting that, for a retaliation claim, a prisoner must prove that “he or she exercised a constitutional right”
• finding that less than an hour and even up to a month was a chronology of events from which retaliation could be inferred
• suggesting that severe, excruciating pain from a fractured ankle combined with a two-to-three-day delay in treatment could constitute substantial harm
• concluding allegedly retaliatory actions were de minimis because the inmate suffered no “serious consequences”
• concluding allegedly retaliatory actions were de minimis because inmate suffered no “serious consequences”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).