Ferguson v. Prudential Insurance Co. of America

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that a plaintiff must plead individual allegations against each defendant that demonstrate individual constitutional violations
• noting deliberate indifference violates 1 Fourteenth Amendment rights of pretrial detainees “whether the indifference is manifested by 2 doctors, guards, or other personnel”
• finding plaintiffs sufficiently pleaded deliberate indifference 2 that shocks the conscience by alleging that prison officials failed address decedent’s 3 worsening Staphylococcus aureus infection until it was too late
• denying defendant’s motion 5 to strike plaintiff’s prayer for punitive damages under Rule 12(f)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).