Rodriguez-Garcia v. Municipality of Caguas

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• reversing because erroneous Rule 408 ruling hamstrung plaintiff’s ability to show elements of claim
• noting 23 that failure to seek treatment “may be probative of credibility, because a person’s normal 24 reaction is to seek relief from pain,” but that “where the stimulus to seek relief is less 25 pronounced, . . . [this] approach to credibility makes little sense.”
• “It is well established that the deliberate acts or omissions of a municipal policymaker with final authority over the subject matter in question may expose the municipality itself to liability.”
• activities may undermine credibility where they (1) contradict the 14 claimant’s testimony or (2) “meet the threshold for transferable work skills”
• factors in assessing physician’s 11 opinion include length of treatment relationship, frequency of 12 examination, and nature and extent of treatment relationship
• an inmate “cannot satisfy the PLRA’s exhaustion requirement solely by filing 4 two administrative tort claims.”

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