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152482P.pdf 06/30/2016 Patrick A. Dadd v. Anoka County
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 15-2482
U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota - Minneapolis
[PUBLISHED] [Kelly, Author, with Beam and Shepherd, Circuit Judges]
Prisoner case - Prisoner civil rights. In this action alleging the county
and its jailers and jail medical staff were deliberately indifferent to
plaintiff's medical needs, the district court did not err in denying
defendants' Rule 12(b)(6) motion to dismiss the complaint on the basis of
qualified immunity as plaintiff showed he was suffering from a serious
dental problem and that the defendants were aware of his condition and
deliberately refused to provide him with pain medication which had been
prescribed for him and brought to the jail at the time of his arrest;
defendant had fair warning about the unconstitutionality of a failure to
provide pain medication for prisoners with serious dental conditions;
defendants' appeal was not frivolous and damages for a frivolous appeal
would not be awarded.