Jackson v. Fauver.

• Position: MEDICAL CARE - Brief Article

U.S. District Court

MALPRACTICE

PRIVATE PROVIDER

FAILURE TO PROVIDE CARE

DELIBERATE INDIFFERENCE

Jackson v. Fauver, 334 F.Supp.2d 697 (D.N.J. 2004). Fifteen former and current prisoners brought separate actions against corrections officials and employees and a contractor hired to operate a prison, alleging deliberate indifferent to their serious medical needs and medical malpractice. The district court held that there were genuine issues of material fact as to whether the prison defendants were deliberately indifferent to one inmate's prostrate cancer and to another inmate's another inmate's HIV/AIDS condition and Hodgkins disease. The court found genuine issues of material fact as to whether the contractor hired to operate the...