TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Apr 23, 2021

The U.S. Supreme Court is leaving in place an appeals court decision that Tennessee’s rationing of life-saving hepatitis C drugs to prisoners was constitutional, the Associated Press reports. The court decided this week it would not take up an appeal of the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals' decision from last August. The appeals court sided with the trial court that state officials did not act with deliberate indifference to prisoners’ medical needs and were reasonable in prioritizing the sickest patients for treatment. The prisoners sued the Tennessee Department of Corrections in 2016 for indifference to their serious medical needs.