Legal Opinion
United States ex rel. Walker v. Fayette County
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided June 15, 1979No. 76-2492PublishedCited by 126 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
2Per curiam
The question is whether a state prisoner’s complaint that prison officials denied him medical care states a claim upon which relief can be granted. We hold that it does and reverse the judgment of the district court dismissing the complaint.
Because of the posture of this case, the district court had to accept as true the following allegations of the pro se complaint: appellant was incarcerated in Fa-yette County prison for approximately six and one-half weeks in the spring of 1974, after his arrest on a narcotics charge and until he could arrange to be released on bond;…
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