Legal Opinion
Merritt v. Athens Clarke County
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Decided July 1, 1998No. A98A1424PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Eldridge, Judge.
This is an appeal from the grant of summary judgment in an action under 42 USCS § 1983 brought by Farris L. Merritt, plaintiff-appellant. Merritt, a former county prisoner, brought his action for cruel and unusual punishment as an Eighth Amendment violation of his rights under the United States Constitution through “acts [and] omissions sufficiently harmful to evidence deliberate indifference to serious medical needs,” while a prisoner under state sentence in the Athens Clarke County jail. Estelle v. Gamble, 429 U. S. 97, 106 (97 SC 285, 50 LE2d 251) (1976). Athens Clarke…
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