Perkins v. Kansas Department of Corrections

How courts have described this case

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• holding that HIV-positive prisoner who believed he should receive a protease inhibitor in addition to certain drugs failed to state an Eighth Amendment claim
• holding that the “district court erred when it held that plaintiff’s allegations about the extended deprivation of outdoor exercise showed no excessive risk to his well-being”
• recognizing that the total, denial of exercise for an extended period of time could constitute cruel and unusual punishment
• holding that “[a] negligent failure to provide adequate medical care, even one constituting medical malpractice, does not give rise to a constitutional violation”
• holding that “negligent failure to provide adequate medical care, even one constituting medical malpractice, does not give rise to a constitutional violation”
• holding that the “negligent failure to provide adequate medical care, even one constituting medical malpractice, does not give rise to a constitutional violation”

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