COOPER

v.

DUGGER, SECRETARY, FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS

Citator

Cited By

• Hill v. Dekalb Reg'l Youth Detention Ctr., 40 F.3d 1176 (11th Cir. 1994)
  …Estelle, 429 U.S. at 104-05, 97 S.Ct. at 291, when it is “tantamount to ‘unnecessary and wanton infliction of pain,’ ” Brown v. Hughes, 894 F. 2d 1533, 1537 (11th Cir.) (per curiam) (quoting Estelle, 429 U.S. at 104, 97 S.Ct. at 291), cert. denied, 496 U.S. 928, 110 S.Ct. 2624, 110 L.Ed.2d 645 (1990). Cases stating a constitutional claim for immediate or emergency medical attention have concerned medical needs that are obvious even to a layperson because they involve life-threatening conditions or situatio…
• Adams v. Poag, 61 F.3d 1537 (11th Cir. 1995)
  …cessary and wanton infliction of pain,’ ” may constitute deliberate indifference to a prisoner’s serious medical needs. Brown v. Hughes, 894 F. 2d 1533, 1537 (11th Cir.) (per curiam) (quoting Estelle, 429 U.S. at 104, 97 S.Ct. at 291), cert. denied, 496 U.S. 928, 110 S.Ct. 2624, 110 L.Ed.2d 645 (1990). Some delay in rendering medical treatment may be tolerable depending on the nature of the medical need and the reason for the delay. Harris v. Coweta County, 21 F. 3d 388, 393-94 (11th Cir.1994). We must…
• Harris v. Coweta Cnty., 21 F.3d 388 (11th Cir. 1994)
  ….g., Mandel v. Doe, 888 F. 2d 783, 788 (11th Cir.1989). Delay in treatment of serious and painful injuries was also clearly recognized as rising to the level of a constitutional claim. Brown v. Hughes, 894 F. 2d 1533, 1537 (11th Cir.), cert. denied, 496 U.S. 928, 110 S.Ct. 2624, 110 L.Ed.2d 645 (1990); Washington v. Dugger, 860 F. 2d 1018, 1021 (11th Cir.1988). For purposes of qualified immunity, however, the pre-existing law must give officials some sense of what amount of time constitutes actionable delay…

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