West v. Keve

U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit · Decided 1978-02-15

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OPINION OF THE COURT VAN DUSEN, Circuit Judge. This appeal concerns an alleged violation of a state prisoner’s Eighth Amendment right against cruel and unusual punishment by withholding adequate medical care from him. Plaintiff is a state prisoner serving a life sentence in the Delaware Correctional Center. Medical examinations of the plaintiff in August and October 1974 disclosed that…

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