Raymond Alwyn McMahon v. Malcolm Beard, Sheriff of Hillsborough County, Florida

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• holding that depriving a suicidal inmate of all clothing and sheets for three months did not violate the Constitution
• concluding that there was no constitutional violation when a pretrial detainee, who had just attempted suicide, was placed in a “strip cell” for ninety days without clothing, a mattress, sheets, or blankets
• rejecting the claim by plaintiff that the applicable legal standard required him to receive the “optimum” or “best” medical treatment
• the applicable legal standard is not whether an inmate was provided the “optimum” or “best” medical care available

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).