Peter Gakuba v. Larry Henderson, et al.
DueProcess FourthAmendment
Whether the Eighth Amendment requires prison officials to accommodate a prisoner's serious medical needs, including a life-threatening food allergy, and whether the failure to do so constitutes deliberate indifference and cruel and unusual punishment
ISSUES PRESENTED FOR REVIEW 1. GAKUBA V. HENDERSON, 21-3205 (USCA7) | Gakuba exhausted all his available administrative remedies when grieving Vienna prison staffers’ deliberate ignorance to Gakuba’s seafood allergy, and religious kosher meal | requirements—as they intentionally sought to starve him to death. See Williams v. Wexford Health Sources, 957 F.3d 828 (7th Cir. 2020). A Pavey hearing was required at a minimum. . Equitable relief was mandated as starvation constitutes torture. Gakuba, 21-1473. First, Eighth, and 14" Amendments violations. | | | | | | | | i/iv |