McGee v. Adams

Dist. Ct. did not err in granting defendants-prison and medical officials’ motion for summary judgment in plaintiff-prisoner’s section 1983 action alleging that defendants were deliberately indifferent to his medical needs by requiring that he wear leg irons on his swollen and possibly cancerous legs when defendants transferred plaintiff outside of prison. Plaintiff could not establish indifference claim with respect to medical defendants, where record showed that defendants consistently monitored condition of plaintiff’s legs, and where plaintiff failed to present any medical evidence to counter opinion of relevant physician that there was no medical reason that plaintiff should avoid use of metal shackles on his ankles. Moreover, non-medical defendants could properly rely on medical defendant’s opinion when denying plaintiff’s request to discontinue use of metal shackles. Fact that plaintiff’s legs became swollen when he was required to walk four blocks did not require different result where plaintiff suffered no other injury.