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Summary Judgment for CMS/NJ DOC Reversed in Physical Therapy Suit
Loaded on Sept. 15, 2005
published in Prison Legal News
September, 2005, page 32
A New Jersey state appellate court issued an unpublished opinion reversing a lower court's grant of summary judgment to Correctional Medical Services (CMS) and the New Jersey Department of Corrections (DOC).On November 7, 1996, Craig Szemple, a prisoner at the New Jersey State Prison, under went two surgeries to ...
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