United States Third Circuit
Pearson v. Prison Health Serv., 16-1140
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 suit filed by a prisoner who suffered from two serious medical needs during his incarceration at Pennsylvania State Correctional Institution–Somerset, claiming that various prison officials and an independent medical contractor were deliberately indifferent to those needs in violation of the Eighth Amendment, the district court's grant of summary judgment to defendants is: 1) reversed in part where it grants summary judgment to defendant Nurse David Rhodes; but 2) affirmed in all other respects.
Appellate Information
- Published 2017/03/07
Judges
- FISHER
Court
- United States Third Circuit