Paul H. Goffman v. Boniface Gross, Danny Jaimet, Lieutenant Maue

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• holding that lay testimony is not sufficient to establish plaintiff’s claim that secondhand smoke caused his symptoms
• finding that the district court is not required to conduct an additional evidentiary hearing to review a magistrate judge’s credibility findings
• stating that \if following a review of the record the district court is satisfied with the magistrate judge's findings and recommendations it may in its discretion treat those findings and recommendations as its own\
• stating that “if following a review of the record the district court is satisfied with the magistrate judge’s findings and recommendations it may in its discretion treat those findings and recommendations as its own”
• explaining “inmates’ lay testimony by itself cannot establish the showing of medical causation necessary to sustain” a deliberate indifference claim
• “The district court is not required to conduct another hearing to review the magistrate judge’s findings or credibility determinations”

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