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Colwell v. Bannister, No. 12-15844 (9th Cir.) (763 F.3d 1060) (August 14, 2014) (Judge Barry G. Silverman)

Loaded on Sept. 8, 2014 published in Punch and Jurists September 08, 2014
Filed under: Punch And Jurists, Cataract Operation.

Here, a divided panel held that a Nevada administrative prison policy of denying prisoners medically recommended cataract surgery, based solely on the premise that “one-eye-Is-enough,” constitutes the “paradigm of deliberate indifference”.

In this case, John Colwell, a 67-year old inmate serving a life sentence in a Nevada state prison, and ...

 

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