No. 19-7565

Tyree Wright v. S. Alvarez, et al.

Lower Court: Eleventh Circuit
Docketed: 2020-02-05
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
IFP
Tags: 8th-amendment civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference diagnostic-imaging due-process eighth-amendment inmate-rights medical-care medical-records prison-healthcare qualified-immunity
Key Terms:
Immigration
Latest Conference: 2020-04-17
Question Presented (AI Summary)

When an inmate notifies medical of his prior head injury/medical history & asks them to retrieve his medical records, is that adequate to his medical situation?

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTIONS PRESENTED : 1. While you are incarcerated in the Florida Department of Corrections (FDOC), how are you supposed to notify Medical of your prior medical history/head injury? 2. When you are prescribed medication ibuprofen, how do you let medical know that the medication they prescribe you isn’t helping stop the pain in ; your head? See Doc. #1 3. Isn’t not giving an inmate an x-ray (CT-Scan/MRI) deliberate indifference? 4. How long does medical have to put off an x-ray, an x-ray that could have discovered Mr. Wright had a tumor growing on his brain? Thus, stopping it or discovering it and it before itconsidered deliberate indifference? See Ancata, 769 F. 2d at 704. The questions presented in this petition arose from the proceedings herein... QUESTIONS 1. | When an inmate notifies medical of his prior head injury/medical history & asks them to retrieve his medical records from Shands Hospital, in Jacksonville, Florida, for a better understanding of his prior and/or current, head history (a gunshot wound, brain swelling & craniotomy) is that inmate’s actions adequate to his medical situation? See Exhibits 12, 19. 2. Although Mr. Wright was provided ibuprofen, does that constitute adequate medical care? See Doc. #1. 3. After receiving said info of Mr. Wright’s prior head injury/medical history isn’t it deliberate indifference not to give him a C.T. Scan/MRI (an x-ray of his brain)? 4. A C.T. Scan/MRI, when requested by Mr. Wright because of his daily headaches & loss of balance, would have stopped the advancement (permanent disabilities, speech impairment, pain & suffering) of the tumor before it matured & caused the damage on Mr. Wright’s body that Mr. Wright suffered (and continues to suffer from). Isn’t that deliberate indifference? ii

Docket Entries

2020-04-20
Petition DENIED.
2020-03-26
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 4/17/2020.
2020-03-06
Brief of respondents S. Alvarez, et al. in opposition filed.
2020-01-27
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due March 6, 2020)

Attorneys

S. Alvarez, et al.
Gregg A. ToomeyThe Toomey Law Firm, Respondent
Gregg A. ToomeyThe Toomey Law Firm, Respondent
Tyree Wright
Tyree Wright — Petitioner
Tyree Wright — Petitioner