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District Court Sets Prisoner's "Deliberate Indifference" Hepatitis C Claims for Trial
Loaded on Nov. 15, 2002
published in Prison Legal News
November, 2002, page 24
A Connecticut Federal District Court has ordered that a state prisoner's Eighth Amendment claims arising from Connecticut Department of Corrections (CDOC) officials' deliberate indifference of his severe medical conditions be severed and that some of the claims proceed to trial. The court deferred ruling on the claims not ordered to ...
Filed under:
Medical,
Diabetes,
Hepatitis,
Administrative Exhaustion (PLRA),
Complaints,
Eleventh Amendment Immunity.
Location:
Connecticut.
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