Legal Opinion
Harrison v. Barkley
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided July 17, 2000No. Docket No. 97-2286PublishedCited by 515 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MESKILL, Circuit Judge, filed dissenting opinion.
JACOBS, Circuit Judge:
Plaintiff-Appellant Duane Harrison, a prison inmate whose teeth were few and bad, alleges that prison officials refused to treat a cavity in one tooth unless he consented to the extraction of another tooth, which was also diseased but which he nevertheless wished to keep. Harrison pleads that this conduct violated his rights under the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments and seeks compensatory damages pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The United States District Court for the Northern District of New York (Pooler, J.) granted…
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