Marvin Mead v. Charles Palmer

*934SMITH, Circuit Judge.

In this interlocutory appeal, Director Jason Smith, M.D., and Nurse Mary Benson, both of Iowa’s Civil Commitment Unit for Sex Offenders (CCUSO) (collectively, “defendants”),2 appeal the district court’s order denying them qualified immunity from damages in a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 suit brought by. Marvin Mead, a patient civilly committed at the CCUSO. Mead claimed that he was denied essential dental care because the defendants required him to pay for partial dentures and were deliberately indifferent to his serious medical need by denying him the dentures.

After careful review…