Legal Opinion
Kuhne v. Florida Department of Corrections
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided February 10, 2014No. 12-13387PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JORDAN, Circuit Judge:
Samuel Goldwyn, the legendary movie mogul, reportedly said that a “verbal contract isn’t worth the paper it is written on.” 1 The same, we conclude, goes for a *1093refusal of medical care form that, if the testimony of the plaintiff is to be believed, was materially altered after he signed it. And because the validity of that document is in question, it could not have served as the basis for the entry of summary judgment in favor of the defendants on the plaintiffs Eighth Amendment claim under 42 U.S.C. § 1983.
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Jeffrey Kuhne was incarcerated by the Florida Department of…
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