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  1. 594 F. Supp. 843 M.D. Alabama June 20, 1984 No. 82-555-N

    In Robbins , the alleged negligence by the doctor was in prescribing a certain drug to combat a skin disorder developed by plaintiff.

    Finally, plaintiff has not persuaded the Court that the doctors negligently delayed the operation to remove plaintiff’s appendix.

    This is not a case where a doctor negligently fails to consider appendicitis as a possible diagnosis.

  2. 666 F. Supp. 1511 M.D. Alabama February 26, 1987 No. 86-T-577-N

    She contends that his treating *1515 physician was negligent in treating her husband’s suspected congestive heart failure without first determining what the cause of the condition was.

    The United States claims that Lauderdale was contributorily negligent because he did not return to the clinic during the week following September 25, as his physician instructed him to do.

    Based upon the foregoing, the court finds that the treatment the family clinic physician provided to Lauderdale was negligent in that it did not meet the minimally acceptable standards of the national medical community.

  3. M.D. Alabama October 2, 2020 No. 2:17-cv-00178
    Not cited

    show that the prison official acted with the “subjective intent to punish” by establishing the official’s “(1) subjective knowledge of a risk of serious harm, (2) disregard of that risk, and (3) by conduct that is more than mere negligence

    The Supreme Court emphasizes that “a complaint that a physician has been negligent in diagnosing or treating a medical condition does not state a valid claim of medical mistreatment under the Eighth Amendment.

  4. 517 F. Supp. 1098 M.D. Alabama July 1, 1981 No. 79-511-N

    of the Veterans Administration doctors in using the neomycin treatment.

    When he was asked by the Court if it would not be highly unusual for him to refer to any inadvertence or negligence on the part of another doctor, he responded: “Yes, sir, I doubt seriously if I would ever do that.” Dr.

    Crawford speculated with plaintiff that strictures negligently caused by a fellow Air Force doctor were causing plaintiff’s jaundice and high fever when Dr.

  5. 379 F. Supp. 1265 M.D. Alabama August 19, 1974 No. 74-17-N
    Not cited

    The complaint sought damages for slander and negligence, and included an allegation that the judge would not have ordered the commitment but for the letter and that the doctor knew this.

    The Court determined that there could be no recovery on the negligence claim because the plaintiff could not establish legal causation between the doctor’s letter and the commitment decision.

  6. 497 F. Supp. 379 M.D. Alabama September 3, 1980 No. 79-92-E

    In this action, plaintiff seeks damages against the United States (acting through the physicians at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Tuskegee, Alabama), for malpractice, alleging that he has developed glaucoma as the result

    of negligence arising out of a cataract operation performed in December 1975, at the Tuskegee Veterans Administration Hospital.

    The Court is of the opinion and so finds that plaintiff has failed to prove by a preponderance of the evidence that the doctors at the Veterans Administration Hospital were guilty of any negligence or lack of care in the operation

  7. Cooper v. Rogers
    968 F. Supp. 2d 1121 M.D. Alabama September 4, 2013 No. 2:11-cv-964-MEF

    Feb. 25, 2013) (recognizing that Plaintiff’s mere belief that a doctor was negligent is not enough to establish a deliberate indifference claim absent any supporting facts).

  8. M.D. Alabama August 21, 2024 No. 2:21-cv-00501
    Not cited

    A “complaint that a physician has been negligent in diagnosing or treating a medical condition does not state a valid claim of medical mistreatment under the Eighth Amendment.” Estelle, 429 U.S. at 106 . C.

  9. 33 F. Supp. 3d 1381 M.D. Alabama October 20, 2014 No. 2:13cv405-MHT (WO)

    Duggar’s other opinion regarded the ■propriety of the covering-physician model of continuity of care.

    He stated, “It does seem somewhat negligent to abandon the patient off to another physician who is not currently involved in that patient’s care.” Duggar Dep. at 41:2-5.

  10. 573 F. Supp. 743 M.D. Alabama September 15, 1983 No. 81-95-N
    Not cited

    Brown’s doctor was to be advised. State employees through negligence simply failed to perform this vital duty. Thus, the sole negligence in this case lies with the State of Alabama employees’ failure to forward Mr.

  11. M.D. Alabama February 17, 2026 No. 2:25-cv-00197
    Not cited

    However, “[a] complaint that a prison physician has been merely negligent in diagnosing or treating a medical condition does not state a valid claim for medical mistreatment under the Eighth Amendment.” Bailey v.

  12. M.D. Alabama March 15, 2024 No. 2:20-cv-00828
    Not cited

    techniques or forms of treatment ‘is a classic example of a matter for medical judgment’ and therefore not an appropriate basis for grounding liability under the Eighth Amendment”); Estelle, 429 U.S. 106 (“[A] complaint that a physician

    has been negligent in diagnosing or treating a medical condition does not state a valid claim of medical mistreatment under the Eighth Amendment.”).

  13. M.D. Alabama August 15, 2024 No. 2:21-cv-00627
    Not cited

    A “complaint that a physician has been negligent in diagnosing or treating a medical condition does not state a valid claim of medical mistreatment under the Eighth Amendment.” Estelle, 429 U.S. at 106 . 2.

  14. M.D. Alabama March 31, 2023 No. 2:20-cv-00293
    Not cited

    That medical malpractice—negligence by a physician—is insufficient to form the basis of a claim for deliberate indifference is well settled. See Estelle v. Gamble, 429 U.S. 97 , 105–07, 97 S.

  15. M.D. Alabama July 29, 2026 No. 2:24-cv-00524
    Not cited

    Howell was negligent because he failed to consult with her and her primary physician about her lifestyle. Id. Hairston also alleges that Dr.

    Howell’s failure to consult her primary physician before commencing the hip procedure violated her unspecified rights. Id. B.

    Count II (Baptist) In Count II, Hairston asserts a negligence claim against Baptist, claiming that Baptist’s alleged failure to supervise or train Dr.

  16. 528 F. Supp. 838 M.D. Alabama December 14, 1981 No. 79-511-N

    When he was asked by the Court if it would not be highly unusual for him to refer to any inadvertence or negligence on the part of another doctor, he responded: “Yes, sir, I doubt seriously if I would ever do that.”

  17. 426 F. Supp. 2d 1247 M.D. Alabama March 28, 2006 No. 2:04-CV-850-MEF

    However, a “complaint that a physician has been negligent in diagnosing or treating a medical condition does not state a valid claim of medical mistreatment under the Eighth Amendment.

  18. M.D. Alabama December 11, 2019 No. 2:17-cv-00029
    Not cited

    Under well-settled law, neither medical malpractice nor negligence constitutes deliberate indifference: That medical malpractice—negligence by a physician—is insufficient to form the basis of a claim for delierate indifference is

  19. 426 F. Supp. 2d 1247 M.D. Alabama March 28, 2006 No. 2:04-CV-850-MEF
    Not cited

    However, a "complaint that a physician has been negligent in diagnosing or treating a medical condition does not state a valid claim of medical mistreatment under the Eighth Amendment.

  20. Cox v. Smoak
    M.D. Alabama November 22, 2024 No. 1:23-cv-00057
    Not cited

    A “complaint that a physician has been negligent in diagnosing or treating a medical condition does not state a valid claim of medical mistreatment” under the Fourteenth Amendment. Estelle v.

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