Berryman v. Rieger, No. 96-2337 (6th Cir.) (150 F.3d 561) (July 6, 1998) (Judge Gilbert S. Merritt)
Loaded on Sept. 1, 1998
published in Punch and Jurists
September 14, 1998
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Immunity - Absolute and Qualified.
In this case the Court denied qualified immunity to a prison doctor and prison nurses who, by appealing, had unnecessarily protracted the litigation by three and a half years.
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