Apodaca v. Ommen
Wyoming Supreme Court
1Opinion of the Court
GOLDEN, Justice.
Appellant, Vincent Apodaca, appeals from orders of the district court which dismissed his complaint of medical malpractice against appellees, Archie Kirsch, M.D., a contract physician for the Wyoming State Penitentiary, and Janet Ommen, R.N., a prison employee who serves as director of the penitentiary’s medical services department and who provides medical care to prisoners on a day-to-day basis.
We will affirm the district court’s orders dismissing the complaint for failure to state claims upon which relief can be granted. However, because the complaint was not dismissed with…
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