Chester Lee Reneau v. Mary Cardinas, et al.

Can prison doctors violate the Eighth Amendment by exposing prisoner’s to the “unnecessary and wanton” infliction of pain? And, does the Constitution permit prison doctors to act with deliberate indifference to a prisoner's serious medical needs by providing treatment so cursory as to amount to no treatment at all? Also, did the lower courts abuse their discretion by denying Petitioner's Seventh Amendment right to trial by jury, by resolving disputed questions of material fact in order to award Dr. Cabiling summary judgment. PARTIES AND RELATED CASES The petitioner is Chester Lee Reneau, a prisoner at Crowley County Correctional Facility in Olney Springs, Colorado. As Reneau is not challenging the Court of Appeals decision against Nurse Mary Cardinas in this action, the respondent in the case at bar is Doctor Louis Cabiling, a medical provider at Crowley County Correctional Facility. This case is docketed as Case No. 1- 17-CV-02595-PAB*SKC in the United States District Court for the District of Colorado, and Case No. 20-1220 in the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.