Zyst v. Miller

Oregon appellate court affirmed trial court ruling that a state prison’s failure to provide medically necessary gender-affirming care and treatment to a transgender inmate, and to provide adequate conditions when the inmate was in a period of segregation, violated cruel and unusual punishment and “unnecessary rigor” clauses. The appellate court only reversed as to part of the remedy, finding the trial court’s orders that the jail provide a psychiatric evaluation and identify an appropriate cellmate for the plaintiff were too attenuated from the constitutional violations so exceeded the scope of permissible relief.