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Fifth Circuit Grants Summary Judgment for Substitution of Pain Medication
Loaded on Aug. 8, 2014
published in Prison Legal News
August, 2014, page 35
Fifth Circuit Grants Summary Judgment for Substitution of Pain Medication
The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed a denial of summary judgment against jail medical officials who substituted ibuprofen for Percocet when treating a prisoner’s gunshot wound.
On September 12, 2008, Ronnie Burton was shot in …
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