The following excerpt is from Tandel v. Cnty. of Sacramento, No. 2:11-cv-00353-MCE-AC (E.D. Cal. 2015):
"The indifference to medical needs must be substantial; a constitutional violation is not established by negligence or 'an inadvertent failure to provide adequate medical care.'" Anderson v. County of Kern, 45 F.3d 1310, 1316 (9th Cir. 1995) (quoting Estelle, 429 U.S. at 105-06). Generally, defendants are "deliberately indifferent to a prisoner's
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