Legal Opinion
Leon v. Johnson
District Court, W.D. New York
Decided May 22, 2000No. 6:97-cv-06041PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DECISION AND ORDER
LARIMER, Chief Judge.
Plaintiff, Hector Leon, appearing pro se, commenced this action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Plaintiff, who is an inmate in the custody of the New York State Department of Correctional Services, alleges that defendants, who at all relevant times were employed at Orleans Correctional Facility, failed to apprise Leon in Spanish, his native language, of Orleans’s medical policies, and that as a result he did not receive his prescribed AIDS medication until several weeks after he arrived at Orleans. Plaintiff also alleges that because there were no…
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