The following excerpt is from Mitchell v. Duffy, No. 2:16-cv-0703 JAM AC P (E.D. Cal. 2018):
As plaintiff was previously advised, "a prison official violates the Eighth Amendment only when two requirements are met. First, the deprivation alleged must be, objectively, sufficiently serious, a prison official's act or omission must result in the denial of the minimal civilized measure of life's necessities." Farmer v. Brennan, 511 U.S. 825, 834 (1994) (internal
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