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Ninth Circuit Modifies Deliberate Indifference Analysis for Pretrial Detainees’ Inadequate Medical Care Claims
Loaded on Oct. 12, 2018
by Matthew Clarke
published in Prison Legal News
October, 2018, page 48
Filed under:
Drug/Alcohol Withdrawal,
Medical Neglect/Malpractice,
Fourteenth Amendment, rights.
Location:
California.
by Matt Clarke
On April 30, 2018, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held it was error to apply a subjective standard to a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 claim alleging inadequate medical care that resulted in the death of a pretrial detainee.
Matthew Shawn Gordon was arrested on drug charges ...
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