Legal Opinion
David G. Boretti v. Beverly A. Wiscomb, R.N., Wanda M. Baldwin, R.N.
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided July 9, 1991No. 90-1427PublishedCited by 379 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CONTIE, Senior Circuit Judge.
The pro se plaintiff-appellant, David G. Boretti, appeals the district court’s grant of summary judgment to defendant-appellee, Beverly A. Wiscomb, R.N., a nurse at the Oakland County Jail where plaintiff was incarcerated, in this 42 U.S.C. § 1983 suit for a violation of the Eighth Amendment’s cruel and unusual punishment clause. 1
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This is a prisoner civil rights suit in which the pro se plaintiff David G. Boretti, a state prisoner, alleges that he was denied medical care during the time that he was housed in a holding cell at the Oakland County Jail in Pontiac,…
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