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10th Circuit Reverses Sua Sponte Medical Claim Dismissal

Loaded on May 15, 2007

Filed under: Skin, Male Reproductive, Failure to Treat, Civil Procedure, Complaints. Location: Utah.

The Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a lower courts sua sponte
dismissal of a Utah prisoner's deliberate indifference action, for failure
to state a claim.

Utah prisoner Joe Martinez has a cyst on his left testicle and epididymis
of his right testicle. These conditions were diagnosed in June 2002. ...

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