Legal Opinion
Medina v. State
Supreme Court of Oklahoma
Decided September 28, 1993No. 79347PublishedCited by 48 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ALMA WILSON, Justice:
Pursuant to the Uniform Certification of Questions of Law Act, 20 O.S.1991, §§ 1601 et seq., the United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma certified the following question of state law to this Court:
Does the dispensing of medicine to an inmate in a state penal institution by a state employee come within the exception provided by Okla.Stat. tit. 51, § 155(23) (Supp. 1989)?
The certified question of law arises out of allegations that the death of Marcos Ramirez, an inmate at the Mack H. Alford Correctional Center of the State of Oklahoma, was caused…
2Cases cited19 opinions
- Estelle v. GambleSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
- Wolff v. McDonnellSupreme Court of the United States · 1974
- Whitley v. AlbersSupreme Court of the United States · 1986
- Helling v. McKinneySupreme Court of the United States · 1993
- Greenholtz v. Inmates of the Nebraska Penal & Correctional ComplexSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
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3Cited by48 opinions
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