No. 25-960October Term 2025Petition Pending
Oregon, et al., Petitioners v. Paul Maney, et al.
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.
Case status
- Current stage
- Petition Pending
- Latest event
- Petition pending
- Decision timing
- No decision timeline until the Court agrees to hear the case.
- What it's about
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.
Question presented
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.
- Case path
United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit / Petition pending
- Area
Petition for review pending
Grounding
- Grounding
- Primary-source trail available.
- Note
- Plain-English explainer. Official filings and opinions remain authoritative.
- Checked
- Sep 3, 2026
- Method
- Methodology