Jabbar v. Fischer

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the failure of prison officials to provide seatbelts to inmates riding in prison vehicles does not, standing alone, violate an inmate’s Eighth Amendment rights
• holding that the failure of prison officials to provide seatbelts to inmates riding in prison vehicles does not, standing alone, violate an inmate’s Eighth Amendment rights
• holding that failure of supervisory prison officials to provide seatbelts to inmates riding in prison 9 vehicles, standing alone, does not violate an inmate’s Eighth Amendment rights
• stating that the “subjective requirement [of an Eighth Amendment claim], deliberate indifference requires ‘more than mere negligence’”
• noting that deprivation of medical care can be a deprivation of a basic human need
• stating that to satisfy the subjective requirement of an Eighth Amendment claim, a “prison official must know of, and disregard, an excessive risk to inmate health or safety”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).