Can a prison official's failure to decontaminate a prisoner after exposure to pepper spray lead to deliberate indifference to his serious medical needs?
MultiRegion, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Maddox v. Ladd, ECF No. 30, NO. 1:07-cv-01227 OWW GSA PC (E.D. Cal. 2011):
A prison official's failure to decontaminate a prisoner after exposure to pepper spray may support an Eighth Amendment claim for deliberate indifference to his serious medical needs. Clement v. Gomez, 298 F.3d 898, 905 (9th Cir. 2002). In Clement, prison officials used pepper
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