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BOP Medical Personnel Absolutely Immune from Suit
Loaded on July 15, 2001
published in Prison Legal News
July, 2001, page 28
The Second Circuit Court of Appeals held that medical personnel employed by the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) are absolutely immune from suit. Prisoner John Andrew Cuoco, a preoperative male to female transsexual, filed an action against various officials at the BOP facility in Otisville, New York. Cuoco named as defendants ...
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