Legal Opinion
Robert Mitchell v. Damon Hininger
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided April 4, 2014No. 13-5315UnpublishedCited by 300 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SUTTON, Circuit Judge.
Robert Mitchell, an inmate at the South Central Correctional Facility in Clifton, Tennessee, slipped and fell on some concrete steps while returning from a work assignment in March 2009. After his fall, Mitchell complained of hip and back pain to the facility’s medical staff. Over the next thirty-one months, he received a battery of tests, diagnoses, medications and treatments from medical professionals both within and without the facility, culminating in successful back surgery in October 2011. Mitchell claimed that the facility and its administrators acted with…
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