Legal Opinion
Brooks v. Celeste
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided November 9, 1994No. Nos. 92-3370, 92-3897PublishedCited by 236 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RYAN, Circuit Judge.
Plaintiffs filed this 42 U.S.C. § 1983 class action on behalf of all current and future inmates confined at the Lima Correctional Institute (LCI), an Ohio state prison. Plaintiffs accused the defendants of inflicting cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the Eighth Amendment by failing to provide the plaintiffs with adequate medical care. After a bench trial before a magistrate acting as a special master, the district court entered judgment for defendants. Plaintiffs appealed, but this court dismissed plaintiffs’ appeal for lack of jurisdiction due to their…
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3Cited by236 opinions
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