William Thomas Meloy v. Kathy Bachmeier Dr. Bernard J. O'Neill

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• holding that a prison medical director could not be held liable for refusing to override a prison doctor’s decision that an inmate did not need a CPAP machine, and stating: “Prison officials cannot substitute their judgment for a medical professional’s prescription.”
• noting that prison officials cannot substitute their judgment for medical professional’s prescribed treatment
• recognizing 18- month period under ERISA to secure QDRO
• granting qualified immunity to 22 nurse, who was acting as administrator, because her “adherence to [doctor’s] order” was 23 “objectively reasonable in light of the legal rules in place at the time”
• “A prison's medical treatment director who lacks medical expertise cannot be liable for the medical staff's diagnostic decisions”
• “A prison's medical treatment director who lacks medical expertise cannot be liable for the medical staff's diagnostic decisions”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).