Haavisto v. Perpich

OPINION

SHORT, Judge.

This case arises out of the tuberculosis epidemic at the Minnesota Correctional Facility at Stillwater (prison) in the mid-1980s. Antti Haavisto alleges the diagnosis of his active tuberculosis was unnecessarily delayed by the prison health care system and in particular, by the conduct of Dr. James Allan (physician). A federal counterpart case was litigated as a class action for injunctive relief. See generally DeGidio v. Pung, 704 F.Supp. 922, 957 (D.Minn.1989) (prison officials’ inadequate response to tuberculosis epidemic violated inmates’ Eighth Amendment rights),…