The following excerpt is from Moore v. Price, No. 2:14-cv-01232 TLN DB (E.D. Cal. 2017):
5. But cf. Farmer, 511 U.S. at 845 (citation and bracketing omitted) (stating that "deliberate indifference does not require a prisoner seeking a remedy for unsafe conditions to await a tragic event . . . before obtaining relief"); Del Raine v. Williford, 32 F.3d 1024, 1035 (7th Cir. 1994) ("To only find an Eighth Amendment violation from inadequate housing when the inmate's health is endangered [erroneously] suggests that frostbite, hypothermia, or a similar infliction is an absolute requisite to the inmate's challenge.").
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