Correctional Law Cases

When plaintiff inmate’s complaint was too long and his allegations unclear, the district court tossed the case after two failed chances to amend it.

A federal court agreed with our national Correctional Healthcare Law attorneys that there were no unconstitutional policies, practices, and customs, and no patterns of misconduct on the part of the healthcare company.

Summary judgment granted in prisoner’s claims that a prison medical provider was deliberately indifferent to a chronic gastrointestinal issue.

A federal jury struck down a pro se prisoner’s allegations that our physician assistant client was deliberately indifferent to “broken hand symptoms” when treating a bite wound on the prisoner’s hand.

The court granted summary judgment for lawsuit alleging inmate was denied narcotic pain medication and removal of broken spinal hardware.

The facts as alleged demonstrated that Plaintiff prisoner received medical care for her detox issues and that medical staff appropriately sent her to the hospital.

Plaintiff, a prisoner with multiple sclerosis, was unable to establish that injuries or damages were proximately caused by defendant physicians’ negligence or wrongdoing.

Our attorneys contended that the prison diet was not part of the correctional health care company’s role per the contract and Department of Corrections policy.

The court granted a Motion for Summary Judgment in a deliberate indifference case involving a prisoner who died from an atypical abdominal aortic aneurysm.

Defendant doctors were not deliberately indifferent under a federal court’s new test, as their medical judgment was reasonable and did not demonstrate a level of wantonness to warrant a constitutional violation.