J. O'LOughLin v. John Doe, a Member of the Medical Staff Who Administers Medications at 5:00 P.M. Director of Adult Detention

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• holding 20 that ignoring requests to treat “pains” with over-the-counter 21 medicine wasn’t deliberate indifference
• inferring that because petitioner’s filings consisted of civil rights complaints and habeas corpus petitions, the pre-filing order should not encompass more than future attempts to file civil rights complaints and habeas corpus petitions
• noting that “isolated occurrences of neglect do not amount to a constitutional violation, where plaintiff claimed that defendants “repeatedly fail[ed] to satisfy his requests for aspirins and antacids to alleviate his ‘headaches, nausea and pains’”
• stating that a court may “deny leave to proceed in forma pauperis at the outset if it appears from the face of the proposed complaint that the action is . . . without merit.” (internal quotation marks and alteration omitted
• affirming broad deference afforded to lower court in reviewing a denial of leave to proceed in forma pauperis
• according broad deference to lower court in reviewing a denial of leave to proceed in forma pauperis

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