Lindsay v. Dunleavy.

• Position: MEDICAL CARE - Case regarding lack of medical care - Brief Article

U.S. District Court

DELIBERATE INDIFFERENCE

FAILURE TO PROVIDE CARE

NEGLIGENCE

Lindsay v. Dunleavy, 177 F.Supp.2d 398 (E.D.Pa. 2001). An inmate whose broken jaw was not diagnosed or treated until he was transferred from a county prison to a state prison brought a [section] 1983 action against the county and others. The district court dismissed the action, finding that the failure of a physician's assistant to x-ray the prisoner's broken jaw was not deliberate indifference and that the prisoner could not state a failure to...