The following excerpt is from Taylor v. Arnold, No. 2:17-cv-2014 KJM CKD P (E.D. Cal. 2018):
2. Denial or delay of medical care for a prisoner's serious medical needs may constitute a violation of the prisoner's Eighth Amendment rights. Estelle v. Gamble, 429 U.S. 97, 104-05 (1976). An individual is liable for such a violation only when the individual causes injury by being at least deliberately indifferent to a prisoner's serious medical needs. Id.
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