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Motive Question Precludes Summary Judgment in Medical Suit
Loaded on Aug. 15, 1999
published in Prison Legal News
August, 1999, page 21
The U. S. court of appeals for the Eighth Circuit held that the existence of a factual dispute as to whether jail guards and medical staff intended to punish a detainee for requesting medical treatment, precluded summary judgment. While Ronald Davis was confined to the St. Louis (MO) City Jail, ...
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