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221198P.pdf 04/12/2023 Tracy Presson v. Darrin Reed
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 22-1198
U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri - Springfield
[PUBLISHED] [Smith, Author, with Benton and Stras, Circuit Judges]
Civil case - Civil rights. Plaintiff, a former pre-trial detainee, alleged
the defendants, the jail sheriff and a jailer, acted with deliberate
indifference to his serious medical needs by denying him or
misadministering various prescription medications; defendants moved for
summary judgment based on qualified immunity; their motion was denied, and
they appeal. The record demonstrated that plaintiff had serious medical
needs and, viewed in the light most favorable to plaintiff's claims, that
defendants knew of and disregarded the serious medical needs by either not
giving him prescribed drugs or by dispensing them in ways inconsistent
with medical direction; second, defendants had fair warning from this
circuit's case law that misadministering or failing to provide plaintiff
with his prescribed medications violated his constitutional rights, making
the rights clearly established; the denial of summary judgment based on
qualified immunity is affirmed.