1. This case presents two important questions on the application of this Court's Bivens case law to federal officials' unconstitutional deliberate indifference to the medical needs of incarcerated individuals: Whether injuries that result from medical indifference must be fatal to recover damages under Bivens and its progeny, specifically Carlson, and whether longstanding prisoner dispute resolution programs render such claims "a new context" barring damages entirely. The courts of appeal are fractured on both questions.

Whether a prisoner's Bivens claim for damages based on a federal official's deliberate indifference to serious medical needs must involve fatal or life-threatening injuries to survive dismissal, and whether the existence of an administrative grievance system within a federal correctional facility constitutes a new Bivens context barring such claims entirely