Legal Opinion
Kosilek v. Spencer
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided December 16, 2014No. 12-2194PublishedCited by 240 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion En Banc
TORRUELLA, Circuit Judge.
This case involves important issues that arise under the Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. We are asked to determine whether the district court erred in concluding that the Massachusetts Department of Correction (“DOC”) has violated the Cruel and Unusual Punishment Clause of the Eighth Amendment by providing allegedly inadequate medical care to prisoner Michelle Kosilek (“Kosilek”). More precisely, we are faced with the question whether the DOC’s choice of a particular medical treatment is constitutionally inadequate, such that the district…
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