Does a prisoner have an objectively serious medical need?
MultiRegion, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Spinks v. Lopez, Case No. 1:10-cv-01886-AWI-SKO PC (E.D. Cal. 2014):
without his dentures, resulting in severe pain, bleeding gums, broken and permanently damaged teeth, and weight loss due to inability to eat properly); Doty v. County of Lassen, 37 F.3d 540, 546 n.3 (9th Cir. 1994) (no objectively serious medical need where prisoner suffered from nausea, shakes, headache, and depressed appetite due to unresolved family stress).
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