Lorenzo Sims v. Wexford Health Sources Inc

OPINION *

Pro se appellant Lorenzo Sims (“Sims”) appeals from the judgment of the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania in his civil rights case. As the appeal does not present a substantial question, we will summarily affirm the decision of the District Court.

I

Sims is a state prisoner housed at SCI-Forest, administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections (“D.O.C.”). Sims alleged that he is a paraplegic due to gunshot wounds, and that the spinal cord specialist who initially treated him diagnosed him “with severe spinal pain.” Accordingly, Sims…