Richard Budd v. Edward Motley

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• holding that the Eighth Amendment’s standard of habitability requirement includes adequate bedding
• affirming dismissal of deliberate‐indifference claim because plaintiff, although dissatisfied with treatment, “received medical attention, medication, testing, and ongoing observation”
• noting the combination of unhygienic conditions and failure to provide inmates a way to clean states a claim
• “[O]fficials violate the Eighth Amendment if they are deliberately indifferent to adverse conditions that deny the minimal civilized measure of life's necessities.”
• “In combination, therefore, the conditions that Budd alleges at the jail state a valid conditions-of-confinement claim.”
• “[W]e have observed that jails must meet minimal standards of habitability. This includes adequate bedding and protection from cold, both of which were allegedly lacking here.”

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