No. 18-8310

Azhar Lal v. B. G. Flores, et al.

Lower Court: Ninth Circuit
Docketed: 2019-03-06
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: 8th-amendment civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment damages deliberate-indifference due-process medical-treatment prisoner-rights standing
Latest Conference: 2019-04-12
Question Presented (from Petition)

IF PETITiONER WAS AN INSULIN DEPENDANT DIABETIC
AND THE PRISON DOCTOR HAD ORDERED PETITIONERS EVENING
DIABETES TREATMENT AS: THAT HE MONITOR HIS BLOOD
GLUCOSE LEVELS AND IF THESE LEVELS WERE OVER A
150 M /DL., THEN HE BE PROVIDED INSULIN ACCORDINGLY
BUT
THE PRISON NURSES DELIBERATLY FAILED TO PROVIDE THIS
TREATMENT ON 3O TO 4O DIFFERENT OCEABSIONS OYER A 2 TO 3
MONTH SPAN IN WHICH TIME PETITIONERS DIABETES- HAD
WORSENED DVE TO THEIR ACTIONS IN WHICH HE REQUIRED
A PERMINENT AND ADDITIONAL INSULIN ALOUG WITH NERYE
DAMAGE TO HIS PEET; AMOUNT TO DELIBERATE INDIFFERNCE
TO A SERIOUS MEDICAL NEED ?

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the prison doctor's deliberate failure to provide insulin treatment for a diabetic inmate's serious medical need amounts to cruel and unusual punishment under the Eighth Amendment

Docket Entries

2019-04-15
Petition DENIED.
2019-03-28
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 4/12/2019.
2019-03-26
Waiver of right of respondents B.G. Flores, et al. to respond filed.
2019-02-21
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due April 5, 2019)

Attorneys

Azhar Lal
Azhar Lal — Petitioner
B.G. Flores, et al.
Michelle Devorah IgraCalifornia Department of Justice - Office of the A, Respondent