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Second Circuit Reverses Summary Judgment for Non-Treatment of Prisoner’s HCV

Loaded on March 15, 2013 published in Prison Legal News March, 2013, page 36
Filed under: Hepatitis, Attorneys, Attorney Fee Awards, Settlements, Consent Decrees, Americans with Disabilities Act, Rehabilitation Act. Location: California.
On March 9, 2012, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the dismissal of a New York prisoner’s claims related to denial of hepatitis C (HCV) treatment. The Second Circuit also determined that the district court had misinterpreted a settlement agreement’s cost recovery provisions.

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