Is Valley Fever exposure and contraction sufficient to qualify as an injury under the Eighth Amendment?
MultiRegion, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Johnson v. Yates, CASE NO. 1:10-cv-00872-MJS (PC) (E.D. Cal. 2011):
The courts of this district have found that claims based solely on Valley Fever exposure and contraction fail to satisfy the first prong of the Eighth Amendment analysis, i.e., that the deprivation is sufficiently serious. Cooper v. Yates, 2010 WL 4924748, *2
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