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Hawaii Prison Doctors Denied Qualified Immunity
Loaded on Nov. 15, 2001
published in Prison Legal News
November, 2001, page 12
AU.S. district court found that Hawaii state prison physicians were deliberately indifferent to a prisoner's medical needs and were not entitled to qualified immunity. Raymond Kenney filed suit in state court alleging denial of medication to control his seizures while he was a Hawaii state prisoner. Kenney sued the State …
Filed under:
Medication,
Seizures,
Civil Procedure,
State Law Claims,
Venue,
Eleventh Amendment Immunity,
Qualified Immunity.
Location:
Hawaii.
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