The following excerpt is from Williams v. Chau, Case No.: 17cv517-CAB(KSC) (S.D. Cal. 2019):
To assert a claim under the Eighth Amendment for the deprivation of humane conditions of confinement, a prisoner must satisfy two requirements: one objective and one subjective. Farmer v. Brennan, 511 U.S. 825, 834 (1994). Under the objective requirement, the plaintiff must allege a deprivation or risk that is "sufficiently serious." Id. "[A] prison official's acts or omissions must result in the denial of 'the minimal civilized measure of life's necessities.'" Id. The risk that the prisoner complains of
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