No. 23-5441

Mika 'ya Ali Shakur v. Sergeant Thompson

Lower Court: Fourth Circuit
Docketed: 2023-08-25
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
IFP
Tags: 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights covid-19 deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment federal-rules-of-civil-procedure prison-healthcare serious-medical-need
Key Terms:
SocialSecurity
Latest Conference: 2023-10-27
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the plaintiff's allegation of denial of Eighth Amendment right to serious medical need for COVID-19 vaccine fails to satisfy Fed. R. Civ. P. 8(a)(2)

Question Presented (from Petition)

Questions Presented i . : 1. On February 1, 2021, PLAINTIFF an inmate in the custody of VADOC, | was denied his eigth amendment right to a "serious medical need" in terms of recieving the " WOderna/VACCINE" to combat Covid-19. The District Court, dismissed the petition on the grounds, that, PLAINTIFF failed to establish that DEFENDANT was deliberate indifferent. And the Court of Appeals, Affirmed the lower court's decision. How does this '. allegation fails to satisfy FED. R. Civ. P. Rule 8(a)(2) 7 2. In 1932, the U.S. Public Health Services begins the "Tuskegee" study of untreated syphilis, in the Negro male with 600 subjects approximately two thirds of whom had syphilis. The subjects are told only thatthey are being treated for "bad blood". 100 die from the disease, it was later ; . revealed that for research purposes the men were denied drugs that could have saved them. Would this state a claim. of "deliberate indifference"? 3. PLAINTIFF contends in the midst of a "GLOBAL PANDEMIC", given the fact that on (ACC), at the time of this "Dehumanizing Deprevation", there oo were over six-hundred inmate's who tested. positive, six deaths, and multiple hospitilizations. : How does denying PLAINTIFF a "serious medical need", due to his name sallegedly not being "highlighted", constitutes a LEGITIMATE \PENOLOGICAL 4 i 1 "justification ? . . | | (4)

Docket Entries

2023-10-30
Petition DENIED.
2023-10-12
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/27/2023.
2023-08-16
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due September 25, 2023)

Attorneys

Mika 'ya Ali Shakur
Mika 'ya Ali Shakur — Petitioner
Mika 'ya Ali Shakur — Petitioner