Cedrico Antwon Childers v. Wayne Coffrin, Jamarius Bethea

Summary

The United States District Court for the District of South Carolina adopts the magistrate judge’s Report and Recommendation and grants Defendants’ motion for summary judgment in a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action brought by a pretrial detainee concerning an injury caused by an electrical detention-center gate. The court finds no clear error in the recommendation that Plaintiff failed to establish deliberate indifference to a serious medical need and that Defendants were entitled to qualified immunity.

Holdings

1. When no specific objections are filed to a magistrate judge's Report and Recommendation, the district court need not conduct de novo review and instead reviews the record for clear error.
2. Plaintiff failed to present evidence sufficient to establish that Defendants were deliberately indifferent to a serious medical need or to create a genuine dispute of material fact, and disagreement with the adequacy of medical care did not amount to a constitutional violation.
3. Defendants were entitled to qualified immunity.

Questions Presented

1. Whether the magistrate judge's recommendation granting Defendants' motion for summary judgment contained clear error when no specific objections were filed.
2. Whether Plaintiff presented sufficient evidence to create a genuine dispute of material fact that Defendants were deliberately indifferent to a serious medical need.
3. Whether Defendants were entitled to qualified immunity.

Disposition

other