Anthony Jackson v. Michael Fair

How courts have described this case

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• holding that 5 transferring a prisoner from one facility to another does not violate the Eighth Amendment 6 because “the Constitution . . . does not guarantee to a prisoner the treatment of his choice”
• holding a prisoner is entitled to adequate medical care, not his choice of treatment
• reviewing the denial of an evidentiary hearing on a motion for a preliminary injunction for abuse of discretion
• affirming the denial of an injunction based only on likelihood of success on the merits
• “although the provision of medical care by prison officials is not discretionary, the type and amount of medical treatment is discretionary”
• “[The moving party] presents no support for the proposition that a plaintiff, || without more, is entitled to cross-examine defendant’s witnesses to prove that they lied in 13 || their affidavits.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).