SWAT officers arrived at what they believed to be an apprehended homicide suspect’s home to search for evidence. A woman inside the home answered the door and indicated she would unlock the front screen for officers. However, they threw a ...

Tagged with: 42 U.S.C. §1983 Deliberate Indifference excessive force

Plaintiff alleged that she was sexually assaulted twice by a fellow student. Plaintiff reported both incidents to school administrators. Dissatisfied with the school’s response, plaintiff filed the present Title IX action alleging deliberate indifference. The district court granted summary judgment ...

Tagged with: Deliberate Indifference Sexual Assault by Fellow Student Title IX

Where an inmate challenged an adverse summary judgment on his claims that jail officials were deliberately indifferent to his serious medical needs, the judgment is affirmed because the inmate did not show deliberate indifference. Judgment is affirmed. Shelton v. McLeod ...

Tagged with: civil rights Deliberate Indifference Inmate Action Serious Medical Needs

Where an inmate, who suffered a hip injury after an assault by another inmate, argued that prison employees were deliberately indifferent to his serious medical needs, the district court did not abuse its discretion in failing to consider the inmate’s ...

Tagged with: Deliberate Indifference Hip Injury Inmate Action

Plaintiff appealed the dismissal of his 42 U.S.C. §1983 action, alleging that corrections officers were deliberately indifferent to his medical needs in diagnosing and treating an earlier stroke, after he was transported to the hospital and diagnosed with suffering a ...

Tagged with: civil practice Deliberate Indifference Inmate Medical Needs

Where a college student who was sexually assaulted by another student sued the university after it failed to move her attacker to another living situation until the investigation was complete, summary judgment for the university is affirmed because there was ...

Tagged with: civil rights Deliberate Indifference Student Rape Title IX Claim

  Where the family of a man who died after a struggle with officers sued officers for excessive force and for exhibiting deliberate indifference to his serious medical needs, the judgment denying summary judgment based on qualified immunity is reversed ...

Tagged with: civil rights Deliberate Indifference excessive force Qualified Immunity

Where plaintiff brought claims of false arrest, excessive force and denial of medical care against officers, the grant of sovereign immunity to the defendants was proper because the district court did not abuse its discretion in concluding that he failed ...

Tagged with: civil rights Deliberate Indifference Denial Of Medical Care Inmate Action

Where an inmate argued that a prison nurse was deliberately indifferent to his serious medical needs by delaying the administration of anti-nausea and pain medication, the judgment is affirmed because the inmate failed to show deliberate indifference. Judgment is affirmed. ...

Tagged with: civil rights Deliberate Indifference Inmate Action

Plaintiff, an inmate, appealed the district court’s grant of summary judgment to defendants in plaintiff’s §1983 action. Where plaintiff failed to show defendants knew of but deliberately disregarded plaintiff’s alleged serious medical need, the district court properly dismissed plaintiff’s deliberate ...

Tagged with: 42 U.S.C. §1983 civil rights Deliberate Indifference Disregard of Serious Medical Need

Plaintiff appealed district court’s grant of summary judgment dismissing his §1983 of deliberate indifference to medical needs and disparate treatment based on race by officials at the county jail where he was incarcerated. Plaintiff alleged his repeated requests and grievances ...

Tagged with: 1983 Claim civil rights Deliberate Indifference Exhaustion of Administrative Remedies