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No Immunity for Kidney Transplant Denial
Loaded on March 15, 1997
published in Prison Legal News
March, 1997, page 25
The court of appeals for the ninth circuit held it lacked jurisdiction to hear prison doctors' interlocutory appeal that they were entitled to qualified immunity for denying a prisoner on dialysis a kidney transplant. Raymond Jackson, a California state prisoner, filed suit claiming prison doctors violated his eighth amendment rights …
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