Lindsay v. Dunleavy.U.S. District Court DELIBERATE INDIFFERENCE FAILURE TO PROVIDE CARE NEGLIGENCE Lindsay v. Dunleavy, 177 F.Supp.2d 398 (E.D.Pa. 2001). An inmate INMATE. One who dwells in a part of another's house, the latter dwelling, at the same time, in the said house. Kitch. 45, b; Com. Dig. Justices of the Peace, B 85; 1 B. & Cr. 578; 8 E. C. L. R. 153; 2 Dowl. & Ry. 743; 8 B. & Cr. 71; 15 E. C. L. R. 154; 2 Man. & Ry. 227; 9 B. & Cr. whose broken jaw was not diagnosed or treated until he was transferred from a county prison to a state prison brought a [section] 1983 action against the county and others. The district court dismissed the action, finding that the failure of a physician's assistant physician's assistant: see physician assistant. to x-ray the prisoner's broken jaw was not deliberate indifference and that the prisoner could not state a failure to supervise claim against a warden. The court noted that a claim of negligent negligent adj., adv. careless in not fulfilling responsibility. (See: negligence) diagnosis or treatment does not rise to the level of deliberate indifference under the Eighth Amendment. (Philadelphia County Prison CFCF CFCF Cigar Family Charitable Foundation (Tampa, Florida) CFCF Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) CFCF Canada's First, Canada's Finest (TV station) , Pennsylvania) |
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