Legal Opinion
Sanchez v. Pereira-Castillo
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided December 23, 2009No. 08-1748PublishedCited by 332 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LIPEZ, Circuit Judge.
Plaintiff Ángel Sanchez alleges that, while a prisoner at a Puerto Rico correctional institution, correctional officers subjected him to an escalating series of searches of his abdominal cavity that culminated in a forced exploratory abdominal surgery. Plaintiff filed this action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against a group of defendants consisting of correctional officers for the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico Administration of Corrections (“AOC”), doctors who worked for the AOC, and doctors who worked at the Río Piedras Medical Center (“Río Piedras”), the medical facility…
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