The following excerpt is from Barker v. Osemwingie, No. 2:16-cv-3008 JAM CKD P (E.D. Cal. 2017):
Deliberate indifference is a very strict standard. It is more than "mere negligence." Farmer v. Brennan, 511 U.S. 825, 835, (1994). Even civil recklessnessfailure "to act in the
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