United States Eighth Circuit

Summary judgment in favor of plaintiff-prisoner's claim, alleging that his Eighth Amendment rights were violated when defendant-physician failed to treat his Hepatitis C Virus, is reversed where defendant has qualified immunity on ground that he did not act with deliberate indifference to plaintiff's condition.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/01/2004
• Published 10/01/2004

Judges

• LOKEN, Chief Judge., Before LOKEN, Chief Judge, BRIGHT and SMITH, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eighth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• James E. Moore, argued, Sioux Falls, SD (Jeffrey L. Bratkiewicz on the brief), for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Thomas W. Clayton, argued, Sioux Falls, SD, for appellee.