Howard A. Crooks v. Crispus C. Nix, Warden, Department of Corrections, Director, Iowa City Medical Center

LAY, Chief Judge.

This is an appeal from an Iowa state prisoner, serving a life term, who in the admission of the State suffers from one of the most severe ailments of all custodial inmates, to-wit, chronic granulocytic leukemia. The prisoner filed a pro se 42 U.S. C. § 1983 complaint on May 6, 1985, alleging the defendants demonstrated deliberate indifference to a serious medical need by denying him a bone marrow transplant on the grounds that the cost was too great and by failing to provide him with adequate or proper pain medication. After appointment of counsel and discovery, the district…