United States First Circuit

Dismissal and summary judgment for defendants in a 42 U.S.C. 1983 case alleging deliberate indifference to plaintiff's serious medical needs in violation of the Eighth Amendment is affirmed where the defendants' actions were not so clearly inadequate as to amount to a refusal to provide essential care.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/02/2006
• Published 10/02/2006

Judges

• LIPEZ, Circuit Judge., Before SELYA, LIPEZ, and HOWARD, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Edgar L. Kelley on brief for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• David A. Hilton, Charles M. Urso, and Morrison Mahoney LLP, on brief for appellees.