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· 10/5/2017

Michael Jenkins v. State of Florida

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that “[prisoner’s] gender dysphoria is a sufficiently serious medical need to trigger the State’s obligations under the Eighth Amendment.”
  • holding that a party must succeed on the merits of his claims to obtain a permanent injunction
  • holding that “[prisoner’s] gender dysphoria is a sufficiently serious medical need to trigger the State’s obligations under the Eighth Amendment.”
  • holding that a prison psychologist was deliberately indifferent for denying an inmate’s requests for sex-reassignment surgery despite providing hormone therapy
  • holding that continued ineffective treatment plan “stopped short of what was medically necessary”
  • holding that continued ineffective treatment plan “stopped short of what was medically necessary”

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