Carl C. Coppinger v. Gene Townsend, M.D., and Wayne K. Patterson

U.S. Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit · Decided 1968-07-24

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BREITENSTEIN, Circuit Judge. Appellant-plaintiff Coppinger brought this action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 claiming that appellee-defendant Patterson, the warden of the Colorado state penitentiary, and appellee-defendant Townsend, a doctor on the penitentiary staff, had deprived him of federally pro…

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