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What did the court decide in Estelle v. Gamble?

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We therefore conclude that deliberate indifference to serious medical needs of prisoners constitutes the "unnecessary and wanton infliction of pain,"

The Court set the deliberate-indifference standard for prisoner medical claims and separately restated that a pro se complaint is to be liberally construed. The sentence above is the court in its own words.

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