The following excerpt is from Garrett v. Diaz, Case No.: 3:19-cv-0510-CAB-MSB (S.D. Cal. 2019):
could result in significant injury or the unnecessary and wanton infliction of pain), he must further allege facts sufficient to show that each individual person he seeks to sue "kn[e]w of and disregard[ed] an excessive risk to [his] health or safety." Farmer, 511 U.S. at 837; Leer v. Murphy, 844 F.2d 628, 634 (9th Cir. 1988) (liability may be imposed on individual defendant under 1983 only if plaintiff can show that defendant proximately caused deprivation of federally protected right).
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