Legal Opinion
Merlin C. Long v. Crispus C. Nix
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided June 7, 1996No. 95-1613PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BOWMAN, Circuit Judge.
Merlin C. Long is serving a life sentence at the Iowa State Penitentiary (ISP) for the brutal murder of a woman. See Long v. Brewer, 253 N.W.2d 549, 551 (Iowa 1977). He filed this 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (1994) lawsuit against officials of the Iowa Department of Corrections seeking, among other things, treatment for a gender-identity disorder and damages for the defendants’ alleged deliberate indifference to his gender-identity disorder. Based on the evidence introduced during a one-day bench trial, the District Court 1 held that (1) the extent of Long’s gender-identity…
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