Opinion ID: 6927142
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Heading Rank: 3

Heading: Inadequate Treatment of the Lice Infestation

Text: A prison’s dispensing of vermin infested bedding, which causes that detainee’s personal infestation, may establish a violation of a pretrial detainee’s due process rights paralleling an Eighth Amendment violation against a convicted inmate. Ferri’s alleged infestation in and of itself, however, fails to establish the existence of a. serious medical need as required under Estelle and Boring. Therefore, plaintiffs fail to set forth sufficient information in their complaint as to this element of their claim. Thus, although summary judgment on this portion of Count III should not have been granted, see supra section III.B., it would not have been error to have dismissed this claim pursuant to Rule 12(b)(6). The court’s grant of summary judgment on this § 1983 claim against the ACJ defendants will, therefore, be vacated and the claim remanded with instructions to dismiss it.