Legal Opinion
Coppage v. Mann
District Court, E.D. Virginia
Decided November 7, 1995No. Civ. A. 95-208-APublishedCited by 76 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
ELLIS, District Judge.
Plaintiff, a former Virginia prison inmate, here asserts federal and state causes of action against various state prison employees and contractors for injuries growing out of defendants’ alleged failure to discover and treat plaintiffs spinal cancer. More specifically, plaintiff asserts that defendants or various of them violated his Eighth Amendment rights (i) by failing to diagnose and treat his cancer, (ii) by subjecting him to inhumane living conditions, and (iii) by handcuffing him to his bed. Also asserted by plaintiff against various defendants…
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3Cited by76 opinions
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