Opinion ID: 6927142
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Heading Rank: 4

Heading: Lack of Treatment for Heatstroke

Text: The same cannot be said for plaintiffs’ § 1983 claim related to the alleged lack of treatment for the eight heatstrokes Ferri allegedly suffered during the summer months of his confinement in the DHU. Heatstroke is considered a serious medical condition that requires treatment. The complaint alleged that jail and county officials were given notice of his condition and did nothing. Under the liberal pleading requirements of Rule 8(a), this is sufficient to establish the existence of deliberate indifference to the extent necessary to survive a motion to dismiss. Therefore, this portion of plaintiffs’ § 1983 claim will survive a motion to dismiss under Estelle and Boring and they should be allowed to proceed on the merits if on remand it survives the same statute of limitations scrutiny that the claim of causing the heatstrokes must undergo.