United States Fifth Circuit

In an inmate's 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action against a prison nurse alleging deliberate indifference to his serious medical needs, denial of qualified immunity for the nurse is affirmed where there was evidence that her conduct, when she offered no treatment options to a patient with a history of cardiac problems who was experiencing severe chest pains, was not objectively reasonable in light of clearly established law, and there was no competent evidence offered to show otherwise.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/05/2006
• Published 10/06/2006

Judges

• PER CURIAM:, Before HIGGINBOTHAM, DeMOSS and OWEN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• John Edward Easter, Iowa Park, TX, pro se., Harold Joseph Liller, Jr., Austin, TX, for Powell.