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Avoiding a Claim of Deliberate Indifference

What is Deliberate Indifference? The concept of “deliberate indifference” has been a legal concept for over forty five years, and the subject of two major Supreme Court decisions.  A case in 1976 (Estelle v. Gamble) established deliberate indifference as a standard for alleging Eight Amendment violations for cruel and unusual punishment.  A second case in…

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