United States Ninth Circuit

The district court's dismissal of plaintiff-prisoner's claim that defendants violated his Eighth Amendment rights by acting with deliberate indifference towards his serious medical needs is reversed and remanded, where because plaintiff's claim for injunctive relief concerns only his individual medical care, his claim is not already encompassed by the Plata class action, which seeks systemic reform of medical care in California prisons.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/16/2013
• Published 07/16/2013

Judges

• PREGERSON

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel