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Ninth Circuit Reinstates Disabled Prisoner's Deliberate Indifference Claim
Loaded on Dec. 15, 2013
published in Prison Legal News
December, 2013, page 42
On November 5, 2012, the Ninth Circuit reversed a district court’s dismissal of a lawsuit filed by a disabled prisoner with limited English proficiency who alleged that prison officials violated his constitutional rights by failing to honor a doctor’s order to house him in a ground-floor cell.
Filed under:
Disabled Prisoners,
Medical,
Injury -- Misc.,
Failure to Treat,
Eighth Amendment,
Administrative Exhaustion (PLRA).
Location:
California.
In December 2008, …
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