United States Eleventh Circuit

In an action alleging that defendant-officer, by booking and questioning plaintiff before seeking medical care for his injuries, was deliberately indifferent to plaintiff’s serious medical need in violation of Fourteenth Amendment rights, the denial of summary judgment based on qualified immunity is reversed where neither the "serious medical need" nor the "deliberate indifference" element was established with such clarity that an objectively reasonable police officer in defendant's place would have been on advance notice that defendant's acts in this case would certainly violate the Constitution.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/16/2010
• Published 11/16/2010

Judges

• Per Curiam

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

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