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Petitioner Tara Zyst is a transgender prisoner who has been diagnosed with gender dysphoria and has attempted suicide nineteen times鈥攅ighteen of them in Oregon Department of Corrections (ODOC) custody. ODOC provided some gender-affirming treatment and housed Zyst in its maximum-custody segregation unit, while declining to provide an individualized assessment that both her psychiatrist and ODOC鈥檚 medical director agreed was medically necessary.

Zyst petitioned for habeas relief, alleging that ODOC violated state and federal constitutional prohibitions against cruel and unusual punishment and unnecessary rigor. After a trial, the habeas court agreed and ordered a range of relief, including Zyst鈥檚 removal from segregated housing, an individualized gender-affirming care assessment, a psychiatric evaluation, and identification of an appropriate cellmate. However, while the Court of Appeals affirmed the constitutional violations, it reversed the psychiatric-evaluation and cellmate orders, arguing that those two pieces of the remedy were 鈥渢oo attenuated鈥� from the violations to qualify as permissible habeas relief. Our brief urges the Oregon Supreme Court to adopt Zyst鈥檚 proposed rule鈥攖hat a trial court exercising habeas jurisdiction abuses its discretion to craft relief only 鈥渋f its orders are based on an erroneous legal conclusion or factual determinations not supported by the evidence, or if its orders are clearly against all reason and evidence鈥濃�攁nd reverse the Court of Appeal鈥檚 decision.

First, the habeas statute expressly allows habeas courts to fashion relief broadly, according to the 鈥渓aw and justice of the case.鈥� Habeas relief is available in conditions-of-confinement cases precisely because ordinary remedies are inadequate to reach them鈥攁 rationale that supports flexible, structured relief. And the equitable nature of habeas relief confirms that a habeas court鈥檚 remedial authority does not impose rigid, formalistic limits.

Second, the Court of Appeals鈥� conclusion鈥攖hat psychiatric assessment and housing placement are severable from the violations it found鈥攊s not just an incorrect legal conclusion; it is empirically wrong. The trial court supportably found that psychological treatment and housing safety are critical elements of addressing gender dysphoria in custody, since when untreated, gender dysphoria predictably can lead to or exacerbate 鈥渄epression, anxiety and self-harm and suicidality.鈥�

Our brief urges the Court to hold that a habeas court鈥檚 remedial choices are broad and reviewed only for abuse of discretion and reverse the Court of Appeal鈥檚 decision insofar as it vacated the trial court鈥檚 psychiatric-evaluation and cellmate orders.