Oregon, et al. v. Paul Maney, et al.
SocialSecurity Punishment
Whether the Eighth Amendment requires state corrections leadership to implement a 'reasonable' statewide response to a public-health emergency, and whether the State of Oregon's COVID-19 pandemic response between March 2020 and May 2022 constituted cruel and unusual punishment for purposes of qualified immunity
1. Whether the Eighth Amendment requires state corrections leadership to implement an overall “reasonable” statewide response to a public-health emergency in the aggregate, across multiple years and facilities. 2. Whether it was clearly established for purposes of qualified immunity that the State of Oregon’s overall response to the COVID-19 pandemic between March 2020 and May 2022 would constitute cruel and unusual punishment, despite a federal judge ruling in June 2020 that the response met constitutional standards.