” Section 17000 mandates that the County relieve and support all incompetent, poor, indigent persons, and those incapacitated by age, disease, or accident, lawfully resident therein, when such persons are not supported and relieved by their relatives or friends, by their own means, or by state hospitals or other state or private institutions. Finally, section 17001 provides that the county’s Board of Supervisors “adopt standards of aid and care for the indigent and dependent poor of the county.” California has interpreted these sections to require a county to provide care even in the face of a budget shortfall. “A lack of funds is no defense to a county’s obligation to provide statutorily required benefits.” Cooke v. Superior Court, 213 Cal.App.3d 401, 413-14, 261 Cal.Rptr. 706 (1989) (<HOLDING>). Therefore, the County’s budget crisis is
holding that plaintiff who alleged he was in pain and discomfort after a bilateral otoplasty sufficiently showed a serious medical need noting that pain though subjective and difficult to measure may well be serious holding that plaintiffs allegation that he was denied prescribed pain medication because of a mdoc policy that narcotic pain medications must be given in the infirmary fails to establish an eighth amendment violation holding that county must provide indigent residents with humane dental care sufficient to remedy substantial pain and infection holding that a prison official may be held liable under the eighth amendment for denying humane conditions of confinement only if he knows that inmates face a substantial risk of serious harm and disregards that risk by failing to take reasonable measures to abate it holding that substantial compliance with notice is sufficient