How have courts dealt with cases of deliberate indifference and deliberate indifference by police or medical staff regarding epilepsy?
MultiRegion, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Mosier v. California Dep't of Corr. & Rehab., CASE NO. 1:11-CV-01034-MJS (PC), ECF NO. 10 (E.D. Cal. 2012):
serious medical needs where police denied for over one hour arrestee's repeated requests to take epilepsy medication and arrestee later suffers a seizure); Hudson v. McHugh, 148 F.3d 859, 864 (7th Cir.1998) (deliberate indifference where jail officers and nurse knew plaintiff had epilepsy, knew he was not receiving any medication, and ignored his repeated requests for treatment).
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