Willie Robinson, Appellee/cross-Appellant v. Deborah Hager Rick Bailey, Sgt. Harold Martin, Co, Appellants/cross-Appellees

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• holding that the Eighth Amendment's proscription against cruel and unusual punishment extends to \proscribe[] deliberate indifference to the serious medical needs of prisoners\
• noting that “expert testimony might be unnecessary to find causation when a brawl leads to a broken nose or black eye”
• ruling on summary judgment that inmate’s “failure to produce expert testimony to prove that lapse in medication caused his stroke” was fatal to his medical deliberate indifference claim
• noting plaintiff’s risk of stroke “was substantial” due to his hypertension, which defendants knew of
• requiring expert medical testimony to address whether a lapse in hypertension medication caused the plaintiff’s stroke
• following Foulk “because this circuit has already upheld the constitutionality of the PLRA, and because a panel cannot overturn another panel’s decision”

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