The Ninth Circuit reverses summary judgment for prison officials who denied a California prisoner prescription transitional lenses based on a blanket policy rather than individualized medical judgment, finding triable Eighth Amendment deliberate indifference issues.
The Ninth Circuit affirmed a defense verdict in a Federal Tort Claims Act suit alleging VA doctors were negligent in prescribing gabapentin to a combat veteran with PTSD who subsequently committed suicide, finding no clear error in the district court’s credibility and standard-of-care determin
The Ninth Circuit reverses summary judgment for Orange County on a Monell claim and vacates a jury verdict for a jail nurse, finding the trial court’s rigid three-hour time limit prevented the plaintiff from presenting his case after a stroke was misidentified as intoxication during booking.