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.

Can prison doctors violate the Eighth Amendment by exposing prisoner's to the 'unnecessary and wanton' infliction of pain?