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Whether Private Actors Entitled to Qualified Immunity Bypassed Due to Factual Dispute
Loaded on July 7, 2015
published in Prison Legal News
July, 2015, page 60
Filed under:
Corizon,
Qualified Immunity,
Contractor Liability,
Medical Neglect/Malpractice.
Location:
Maine.
Whether Private Actors Entitled to Qualified Immunity Bypassed Due to Factual Dispute
The First Circuit Court of Appeals declined to rule on a question of whether qualified immunity is categorically unavailable to private medical contractors because disputed issues of material fact remained in the case.
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