United States v. Laetividal-GonzaLez

How courts have described this case

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• holding that denial of basic sanitation can constitute cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the Eighth Amendment
• holding that prison officials, who ignored inmate’s repeated notifications of physical assaults and requests for placement in protective custody, could be found deliberately indifferent
• holding that although prison officials are not required to provide protective custody to every inmate who asserts he was assaulted or threatened,14 “prison officials should, at a minimum, investigate each allegation of violence or threat of violence”
• noting that prison officials may punish so long as they do not harm the health of prisoners
• explaining that “an inmate’s disagreement with prison personnel over the exercise of medical judgment does 16 not state a claim for relief’
• holding a court should allow liberal amendment of a pro se plaintiff’s civil rights complaint

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