United States Eighth Circuit

A jury verdict, finding that a prisoner's Eighth Amendment rights were violated through denial of medication for hypertension and a subsequent stroke, is reversed where no evidence showed that the lack of medication caused the stroke.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/03/2002
• Published 06/03/2002

Judges

• MCMILLIAN, Circuit Judge., Before McMILLIAN, HEANEY and RILEY, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eighth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Paul Rauschenbach, Asst. Missouri Atty. Gen., argued, St. Louis, MO, for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Dan M. Lesicko, argued, St. Louis, MO, for appellee.