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No Immunity for Private Prison Physician
Loaded on Dec. 15, 2000
published in Prison Legal News
December, 2000, page 32
The U.S. court of appeals for the Eleventh Circuit held that a privately employed prison physician was ineligible to claim qualified immunity. Disputed material facts surrounding his response to a prisoner's serious medical condition also precluded summary judgment on the merits.
Filed under:
Wexford Health Services,
Injury -- Misc.,
Private Contractors,
Muscular,
Civil Procedure,
Defenses,
Qualified Immunity,
Contractor Liability.
Location:
Georgia.
In June 1995, Fitzgerald Hinson was a prisoner in ...
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