United States Tenth Circuit

Summary judgment in favor of defendant, a prison's treating physician, in a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 case is affirmed where plaintiff did not create a genuine issue of material fact as to whether defendant either knew about and failed to treat plaintiff's heart condition or otherwise consciously disregarded his medical needs.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/08/2006
• Published 03/08/2006

Judges

• TYMKOVICH, Circuit Judge., Before: MURPHY, McWILLIAMS, and TYMKOVICH, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Louis Wilcox (Timothy M. Hurley, Esq., John Baer, Helen Hoopes, Jeff Gillio, and Ted Ongert with him on the court-ordered briefs) Sturm College of Law at the University of Denver, Federal Appellate Clinic, Denver, CO (with Brian Self on pro-se briefs), for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Elizabeth C. Moran, Pryor Johnson Montoya Carney & Karr, P.C., Greenwood Village, CO, for Defendants-Appellees.