United States Eleventh Circuit

In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 case alleging that defendant applied excessive force to plaintiff and was deliberately indifferent to her serious medical needs while plaintiff was detained at the Hillsborough County Jail in Tampa, Florida, the denial of summary judgment based on qualified immunity for defendants is affirmed in part where the force defendant used was obviously--in the light of the preexisting law--beyond what the Constitution would allow under the circumstances. However, the judgment is reversed in part where the medical treatment that plaintiff received would support no conclusion of deliberate indifference by defendant.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/09/2010
• Published 11/09/2010

Judges

• Per Curiam

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

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