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Second Circuit Finds Personal Involvement, Reverses Dismissal of Bivens Claim

Loaded on Aug. 15, 2008

Filed under: Medical, Medication, Systemic Medical Neglect, ENT, Vision, Injunctions, Parties. Location: New York.

The Second Circuit of Appeals has reversed a lower court’s dismissal of a prisoner’s Bivens claim, alleging denial of glaucoma medication which caused his permanent blindness.

In September 2001, DEA agents arrested Rodney Thomas in California on drug charges. “Thomas … told the … agents that he suffered from glaucoma, …

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