Whether the respondents acted with deliberate indifference when they refused to authorize payments for a hearing aid, a medically necessary device to remedy a hearing loss in the petitioner's right ear as prescribed by an audiologist, in violation of the Eighth Amendment's prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment

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