Martin v. DeBruyn

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “Nothing in the Eighth Amendment 24 . . . requires a state to provide an inmate, free of charge, with a necessary commodity that would 25 not be free outside the prison walls and which the inmate has the legal means to obtain.”
• court granted motion to dismiss stating that medical co-pay system did not violate Eighth Amendment
• “A prison official who withholds necessary medical care, for want of payment, from an inmate who could not pay would violate the inmate’s constitutional rights if the inmate’s medical needs were serious ... ”
• “A prison official who withholds necessary medical care, for want of payment, from an inmate who could not pay would violate the inmate’s constitutional rights if the inmate’s medical needs were serious .... ”
• “A prison official who withholds necessary medical care, for want of payment, from an inmate who could not pay would violate the inmate's constitutional rights if the inmate's medical needs were serious . . . .”
• “A prison official who withholds necessary medical care, for want of payment, from an inmate who could not pay would violate the inmate's constitutional rights if the inmate's medical needs were serious . . . .”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).