Lemire v. California Department of Corrections & Rehabilitation

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• concluding that plaintiffs stated a claim for deliberate indifference where “litigation specifically alerted prison officials to the acute problem of inmate suicides”
• holding that “plaintiffs alleging deliberate indifference must also demonstrate that the defendants’ actions were both an actual and proximate cause of their injuries”
• holding that “plaintiffs alleging deliberate indifference must also demonstrate that the defendants’ actions were both an actual and proximate cause of their injuries”
• holding that the deliberate indifference of 20 prison officials to the medical needs of prisoners can support Eighth Amendment liability
• holding that the bar for a deliberate indifference claim is significantly 2 higher than that for a negligence claim
• holding that there was a triable issue on deliberate indifference where defendants had a duty to 6 prevent suicides but left plaintiff unmonitored for three-and-a-half hours

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