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California: State Not Liable for Failure to Provide Needed Treatment so Long as Medical Care is Summoned

On January 15, 2013, the California Court of Appeal held that state prison officials were immune from liability, as a matter of law, for decisions that resulted in a prisoner failing to receive the medical treatment he needed. Those decisions led to the amputation of the prisoner’s penis after his ...

 

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