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Abstract: 

Our regular review of important appellate decisions includes three cases: Tackett v. Dauss (7th Cir. 2025), where the court held that Indiana’s chief medical officer was not deliberately indifferent to an inmate’s fatal Hepatitis C because she was not personally involved in his care and had taken steps to expand access to antiviral treatment; Dantzler v. Baldwin (8th Cir. 2025), which denied qualified immunity to a prison doctor who delayed ordering an MRI for a serious knee injury based on the inmate’s possible parole, finding such a nonmedical delay could constitute deliberate indifference; and Erickson v. Gogebic County, Michigan (6th Cir. 2025), where a county officer was found liable for unconstitutional use of force but not for deliberate indifference to the inmate’s medical needs.

Keywords: Deliberate Indifference; Qualified Immunity; Excessive Force; Prison Medical Care; Hepatitis C; Eighth Amendment

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