Xiang Mei Lian v. Gonzales

How courts have described this case

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• holding that refusal to authorize cataract surgery after a doctor recommended surgery was a difference of medical opinion
• holding that refusal to authorize cataract surgery after a doctor recommended surgery was a difference of medical opinion
• finding that delay before conducting cataract surgery was not deliberate indifference and declining to reach the issue whether there was “a serious medical need”
• finding that delay before conducting cataract surgery was not deliberate indifference and declining to reach the issue whether there was “a serious medical need”
• “Dr. Bauman’s refusal to authorize cataract surgery after another doctor determined that such surgery was an option was a difference of medical opinion, insufficient by itself to raise a triable issue of deliberate indifference.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).