U.S. District Court: DELIBERATE INDIFFERENCE DENIAL OF CARE INADEQUATE CARE.

• Position: Prisoners and prisons - Brief Article

Verser v. Elyea, 113 F.Supp.2d 1211 (N.D.III. 2000). A prisoner brought a [sections] 1983 action against a prison's current and former medical directors and other officials, alleging that he was denied proper medical attention for an injury. The district denied the defendants' motion to dismiss, finding that the medical director's alleged conduct in declining to follow the recommendations of an orthopedic specialist, without even examining the prisoner and despite the Prisoner's repeatedly...