Majors v. Ridley-Turner, No. 3:03-CV-0585 AS (N.D.Ind.) (277 F.Supp.2d 916) (August 18, 2003) (Judge Allen Sharp)
Loaded on Oct. 1, 2003
published in Punch and Jurists
October 27, 2003
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Deliberate Indifference.
Here the Court held that a series of barbaric and incompetent acts by prison dentists on an unmate die not rise to the level of deliberate indifference required by the Eighth Amendment since they were merely negligence, incompetence or malpractice.
Scicluna v. Wells, 345 F.3d 441 (6th Cir. …
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