Harris v. Anne Bates Leach Eye Institute

Petitioner James S. Harris seeks leave of this Court to file a belated appeal of the trial court’s August 29, 2012 order dismissing, with prejudice, Harris’s medical malpractice complaint against the Respondents, Anne Bates Leach Eye Hospital of the University of Miami 1 and three individual doctors (collectively, the “Hospital”). For the reasons stated below, we deny the petition.

I. Facts.

In September of 2011, Harris, an inmate at a State of Florida correctional facility, filed a civil rights action against Hospital. Essentially, Harris alleged that he lost eighty percent of the vision in…