Punch and Jurists

Colwell v. Bannister, No. 12-15844 (9th Cir.) (763 F.3d 1060) (August 14, 2014) (Judge Barry G. Silverman) by Here, a divided panel held that a Nevada administrative prison policy of denying prisoners medically recommended cataract surgery, based solely on the premise that “one-eye-Is-enough,” constitutes the “paradigm of deliberate indifference”. In …