United States Second Circuit

In an inmate's claim that corrections officials failed to respond adequately to his medical condition, the inmate presented sufficient evidence that his medical condition was objectively a serious one, to overcome summary judgment. A chief medical officer was not entitled to summary judgment on deliberate indifference.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/03/2003
• Published 01/03/2003

Judges

• CALABRESI, Circuit Judge., Before: CALABRESI, B.D. PARKER, Circuit Judges, and STEIN, District Judge.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Vincent A. Brock, #97-B-2794, Collins Correctional Facility, Collins, NY, pro se.


• For Appellees:
  
• Julie S. Mereson, Assistant Solicitor General, for Eliot Spitzer, Attorney General of the State of New York, (Peter H. Schiff, Senior Counsel, of counsel) Albany, NY, for Defendants-Appellees.