Legal Opinion
Hernandez v. Keane
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided August 20, 2003No. Docket No. 00-0347PublishedCited by 139 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JACOBS, Circuit Judge.
Plaintiff-appellant Juan Hernandez, a prisoner in the New York State prison system, sued various state prison officials in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Pitman, J.), alleging that they violated the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment by their deliberate indifference to his serious medical needs. A jury returned a verdict in his favor and apportioned approximately $108,000 in damages among defendants at Sing Sing Correctional Facility: Charles Greiner, the First Deputy Superintendent; Dr. Satish Kapoor,…
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