What is the test for maintaining an Eighth Amendment claim based on lack of medical treatment for an inmate?
MultiRegion, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Young v. Lee, No. 2:17-cv-02596-CKD P (E.D. Cal. 2020):
To maintain an Eighth Amendment claim based on lack of medical treatment, an inmate must show "deliberate indifference to serious medical needs." Estelle v. Gamble, 429 U.S. 97,
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