Jeannie Parsons v. MDOC

SILER, Circuit Judge.

This appeal involves two related cases brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 by the personal representative of Randy Parsons, a Michigan prisoner who died while in custody at Standish Maximum Correctional Facility (“Standish”). Plaintiff argues that Parsons died from a seizure after various officials failed to provide him with the anti-seizure medication Dilantin over a number of days and that this failure amounted to deliberate indifference to Parsons’s medical needs in violation of the Eighth Amendment. The district court granted summary judgment for all defendants in both…