Lavarita D. Meriwether v. Gordon H. Faulkner

How courts have described this case

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• holding that an inmate stated a § 1983 claim for deliberate medical indifference for medical issues caused by gender dysphoria
• holding that “plaintiff’s complaint [asserting that she received no treatment for her gender dysphoria] does state a ‘serious medical need’”
• explaining that conditions that are merely inconvenient or uncomfortable do not violate the Constitution because “the Constitution does not mandate that prisons be comfortable”
• explaining that an argument “challenging the factual allegations contained in plaintiff’s complaint[] may not be made on a motion to dismiss, where … the plaintiff’s allegations must be accepted as true”
• finding deliberate indifference where a doctor “ridiculed” a transsexual prisoner and told her that “he would make sure she never received estrogen treatment as long as she was incarcerated”
• finding district court’s sua sponte dismissal premature where inmate alleged prolonged confinement in isolation

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).