Kenney v. Paderes.U.S. District Court MEDICATION DELIBERATE INDIFFERENCE Kenney v. Paderes, 217 F.Supp.2d 1095 (D.Hawai'i 2002). A former prison inmate sued prison doctors, alleging they were deliberately indifferent to his medical needs while he was incarcerated incarcerated /in·car·cer·at·ed/ (in-kahr´ser-at?ed) imprisoned; constricted; subjected to incarceration. in·car·cer·at·ed adj. Confined or trapped, as a hernia. . The district court denied the doctor's motion for summary judgment motion for summary judgment n. a written request for a judgment in the moving party's favor before a lawsuit goes to trial and based on recorded (testimony outside court) affidavits (or declarations under penalty of perjury), depositions, admissions of fact, answers , finding genuine issues of material fact, as to whether the doctor's denial of the medication lorazepam lorazepam /lor·a·ze·pam/ (lor-az´e-pam) a benzodiazepine used as an antianxiety agent, sedative-hypnotic, preanesthetic medication, and anticonvulsant. lor·az·e·pam n. to control the inmate's tremors, was potentially life-threatening and amounted to deliberate indifference. The inmate suffered from a neurological disorder that caused him to experience tremors and lorazepam had been prescribed by all of the inmate's previous doctors, but was denied by the prison doctor. (Halawa Correctional Facility Halawa Correctional Facility is a prison in Hawaii that houses inmates in medium security, maximum security and special needs populations. Originally opened in 1962 as the City and County Halawa Jail it was transferred to the State in 1977. , Hawai'i) |
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