What is the test for a claim for medical care in prison?
MultiRegion, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Spinks v. Lopez, Case No. 1:10-cv-01886-AWI-SKO PC (E.D. Cal. 2014):
For claims arising out of medical care in prison, Plaintiff "must show (1) a serious medical need by demonstrating that failure to treat [his] condition could result in further significant injury or the unnecessary and wanton infliction of pain," and (2) that "the defendant's response to the need was deliberately indifferent." Wilhelm v. Rotman, 680 F.3d 1113, 1122 (9th Cir. 2012)
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