What is the test for maintaining an Eighth Amendment claim based on medical treatment in prison?
MultiRegion, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Sloan v. Comm'r of the Dep't of Corr., No. 2:15-cv-1921 MCE AC P (E.D. Cal. 2017):
If plaintiff wants to make claims related to his medical care, then in order "to maintain an Eighth Amendment claim based on prison medical treatment, [he] must show 'deliberate indifference to serious medical needs.'" Jett v. Penner, 439 F.3d 1091, 1096 (9th Cir. 2006),
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