Snow v. Wiertella

Issue: (1) Whether the Sixth Circuit departed from this court’s decision in Farmer v. Brennan in denying qualified immunity to petitioners, despite the lack of evidence that petitioners had actual knowledge of the substantial risk of serious harm, because they failed to act on information suggesting the need for medication at some point in the future; (2) whether the Sixth Circuit departed from Farmer by finding that a medical response that creates a brief deprivation of a commonplace medication, unnecessary to staving off any apparently imminent patient risk, is unreasonable and runs afoul of the Constitution; and (3) whether the Sixth Circuit departed from this court’s decisions in Taylor v. Barkes and Mullenix v. Luna, and numerous other cases by considering clearly established law at too high a level of generality rather than giving particularized consideration to the facts and circumstances of this case.