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No Qualified Immunity for Failure to Perform Timely Liver Biopsy

by John E. Dannenberg

The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals affirmed a ruling by the U.S. District Court (N.D. Cal.) that the failure of a prison health care manager to provide a Hepatitis-C positive (HCV+) prisoner with a timely liver biopsy amounted to deliberate indifference to his serious medical ...

 

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