What is the test for an Eighth Amendment claim?
MultiRegion, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Garraway v. T. Griffin, No. 16-1195-cv (2nd Cir. 2017):
To state an Eighth Amendment claim in this context, a plaintiff must allege that "(1) objectively, the deprivation the inmate suffered was sufficiently serious that he was denied the minimal civilized measure of life's necessities, and (2) subjectively, the defendant official acted with a sufficiently culpable state of mind, such as deliberate indifference to inmate health or safety." Walker v. Schult, 717 F.3d 119, 125 (2d Cir. 2013) (alteration and internal quotation marks omitted).
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