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Tenth Circuit Reinstates Suit over Failure to Provide Medical Treatment to Oklahoma Arrestee/Prisoner
Loaded on Dec. 5, 2017
by Matthew Clarke
published in Prison Legal News
December, 2017, page 52
Filed under:
Failure to Treat.
Location:
Oklahoma.
by Matt Clarke
On January 23, 2017, the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed in part a district court’s grant of summary judgment to an Oklahoma state trooper and jailers who failed to obtain medical care for a prisoner after mistaking a brain injury for intoxication. An amended appellate ruling ...
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