Stewart v. Murphy

RHESA HAWKINS BARKSDALE, Circuit Judge:

For this 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action arising out of the death of Eugene Stewart, an inmate in the Mississippi Department of Corrections (MDOC), Appellants challenge an adverse summary judgment, claiming material fact issues for whether, in violation of the Eighth Amendment, three of Stewart’s treating physicians and the medical director at the prison hospital were deliberately indifferent to his serious medical needs, resulting in his death. We AFFIRM.

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This action centers on the treatment provided Stewart, from August 1994 until his death four months later,…