United States Second Circuit

A reasonable jury could reasonably find that defendants acted with deliberate indifference to plaintiff-inmate's health when they reflexively followed the substance abuse policy in the face of unanimous recommendations by physicians to depart from the policy.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/24/2005
• Published 06/24/2005

Judges

• KATZMANN, Circuit Judge., Before:  KATZMANN, HALL, Circuit Judges. and MURTHA, District Judge.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Catherine C. Montjar, Kornstein, Veisz, Wexler & Pollard LLP, New York, N.Y. (Susanna M. Buergel, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, New York, NY, on the brief), for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Michelle Aronowitz, Assistant Solicitor General, (Melanie L. Oxhorn, Assistant Solicitor General, of counsel) for Eliot Spitzer, Attorney General of the State of New York, New York, NY, for Defendants-Appellees.