The following excerpt is from Duckett v. Schemehorn, Civil No. 11cv0113 AJB (NLS) (S.D. Cal. 2011):
To allege an Eighth Amendment violation, a prisoner must "satisfy both the objective and subjective components of a two-part test." Hallett v. Morgan, 296 F.3d 732, 744 (9th Cir. 2002) (citation omitted). First, he must allege that prison officials deprived him of the "minimal civilized measure of life's necessities." Id. (citation omitted). Second, he must allege the prison
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official "acted with deliberate indifference in doing so." Id. (citation and internal quotation marks omitted).
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