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Our regular review of important court decisions includes three federal appellate cases. In Hubbard v. Mitcheff,(7th Cir. 2022), and inmate who sued over missed injections that cost him the use of one eye failed to persuade a federal trial court that doctors had ignored his serious medical need, a decision upheld by the 7th Circuit; in Brabbit as Trustee for Bild v. Capra (8th Cir. 2023), the estate of Richard Bild, who threw himself from a second floor walkway in the Washington County (Minn.) Jail, failed in its claim that officials’ decisions not to seek specialized mental health treatment or maintain Bild on a Special Close Watch statues led directly to the inmate’s suicide: the 8th Circuit upheld a district court ruling that the jail did not demonstrate deliberate indifference to the inmate’s risk of suicide; and in Grote v. Kenton County Kentucky, No. 23-5133 (6th Cir. 2023) on appeal from a summary judgment, the federal appeals court ruled that a jury could have found that a medical provider was deliberately indifferent to an inmate’s need for medical attention, but not that jail deputies had acted unconstitutionally.

Keywords: Missed Treatments; Suicide Watch; Overdose

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