United States Fifth Circuit

Denial of a state-prison physician's assertion of qualified immunity from an inmate's civil rights action alleging constitutionally inadequate medical care is reversed as the physician was entitled to immunity since plaintiff could not establish deliberate indifference to his medical needs.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/29/2006
• Published 08/30/2006

Judges

• PATRICK E. HIGGINBOTHAM, Circuit Judge:, Before HIGGINBOTHAM, DAVIS and STEWART, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• J. Arthur Smith, III, Baton Rouge, LA, Keith Baker Nordyke (argued), Nordyke & Denlinger, Baton Rouge, LA, for Plaintiff-Appellee., Alden Alfred Clement, Jr. (argued), Oats & Hudson, Baton Rouge, LA, for Defendants-Appellants.