Estelle v. Gamble
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| Estelle v. Gamble | ||||||||||
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| Argued October 5, 1976 Decided November 3, 1976 |
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| Chief Justice: Warren E. Burger Associate Justices: William J. Brennan, Jr., Potter Stewart, Byron White, Thurgood Marshall, Harry Blackmun, Lewis F. Powell, Jr., William Rehnquist, John Paul Stevens |
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| Majority by: Marshall Joined by: Burger, Brennan, Stewart, White, Powell, and Rehnquist Concurrence by: Blackmun Dissent by: Stevens |
Estelle v. Gamble, was a case decided by United States Supreme Court, that held that in order to state a cognizable Section 1983 claim for a violation of Eighth Amendment rights, a prisoner must allege acts or ommissions sufficiently harmful to evidence deliberate indifference to serious medical needs, and that medical malpractice did not rise to the level of "cruel and unusual punishment" simply because the victim was a prisoner.
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"Estelle v. Gamble" on Wikisource.
List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 429
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