Legal Opinion
Wright v. Anding
Alaska Supreme Court
Decided March 17, 2017No. 7160 S-15959PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
STOWERS, Chief Justice.
I. INTRODUCTION
A former inmate of the Alaska Department of Corrections (DOC), who was incarcerated at an out-of-state correctional facility under contract with DOC, filed a medical malpractice and 42 U.S.C. § 1983 civil rights action against officials employed by the out-of-state correctional facility and by DOC. The civil rights claims alleged that the corrections officials were deliberately indifferent to the inmate’s medical needs.
The superior court granted summary judgment dismissing the medical- malpractice action as barred by the two-year statute of…
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