Legal Opinion
Bernier v. Trump
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided March 8, 2018No. Case No. 16–cv–00828 (APM)PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Amit P. Mehta, United States District Judge
I. INTRODUCTION
Plaintiff Jean-Gabriel Bernier, a federal prisoner, brought this action against the Federal Defendants1 alleging, among other things, that the Federal Bureau of Prisons violated his Eighth Amendment right to be free from cruel and unusual punishment by refusing to prescribe him the drug Harvoni to treat his Hepatitis C. The court previously dismissed Plaintiff's Bivens claims for money damages on qualified immunity grounds, but allowed his claim seeking injunctive relief in the form of Harvoni treatment to move forward.
This matter is…
2Cases cited40 opinions
- Estelle v. GambleSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
- Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of NarcoticsSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
- Pearson v. CallahanSupreme Court of the United States · 2009
- Anderson v. CreightonSupreme Court of the United States · 1987
- Mullenix v. LunaSupreme Court of the United States · 2015
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