United States Second Circuit

The district court properly determined that the jury could weigh the absence of adverse medical effects in assessing the objective sufficiency of a prisoner's Eighth Amendment denial of medical care claim.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/14/2003
• Published 01/14/2003

Judges

• STRAUB, Circuit Judge., Before:  WALKER, Chief Judge, CARDAMONE and STRAUB, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Erik T. Koons,Howrey Simon Arnold & White, LLP, Washington, D.C. (Tifanie Gardner, Georgetown University Law Center, on the brief), for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Marcus J. Mastracco, Assistant Solicitor General (Eliot Spitzer, Attorney General of the State of New York;  Nancy A. Spiegel, Assistant Solicitor General, on the brief), Albany, N.Y., for Defendants-Appellees.