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Leg Amputation Caused by Improper Treatment Defeats Summary Judgment
Loaded on Nov. 15, 2001
published in Prison Legal News
November, 2001, page 7
A federal district court in New York has ordered a new trial in a civil rights excessive use of force suit. Prisoner Milton Ruffin filed suit against Sullivan Correctional Facility guard Van Fuller for an incident that occurred on October 19, 1998. Ruffin was confined in the Special Housing Unit ...
Filed under:
Medical,
Systemic Medical Neglect,
Injury -- Misc.,
Diabetes,
Podiatry,
Amputations.
Location:
New York.
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