Opinion

Lopez-Medina v. United States

  • 502 U.S. 849
  • 60 U.S.L.W. 3261
  • 112 S. Ct. 151
  • 116 L. Ed. 2d 117
  • 1991 U.S. LEXIS 4578
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Filed
Oct 7, 1991
Status
Published
Cited by
474 cases
Authority
More cited than 99.3%

district attorney’s comments that the defendants carved the victim up “like a cheap piece of tenderloin” merely summarized trial evidence with permissible oratorical flair

How later courts described this case

  • district attorney’s comments that the defendants carved the victim up “like a cheap piece of tenderloin” merely summarized trial evidence with permissible oratorical flair
  • administrative delay in scheduling a medical procedure caused by negligence does not constitute deliberate indifference
  • summary judgment motion “will not be defeated merely ... on the basis of conjecture or surmise”
  • a summary judgment motion will not be defeated on the basis of conjecture or surmise

Written by the judges who cited it.

The opinion

This record has no opinion text. It is a disposition such as a denial of certiorari, kept so the case can be found by name and citation.

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