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CROOKS v. NIX

No. 88-1461.

872 F.2d 800 (1989)

Howard A. CROOKS, Appellant, v. Crispus C. NIX, Warden, Department of Corrections, Director, Iowa City Medical Center, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided April 10, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Steven L. Nelson, Des Moines, Iowa, for appellant.

Suzie A. Berregaard, Asst. Atty. Gen., Des Moines, Iowa, for appellees.

Before LAY, Chief Judge, McMILLIAN and WOLLMAN, Circuit Judges.

LAY, Chief Judge.

This is an appeal from an Iowa state prisoner, serving a life term, who in the admission of the State suffers from one of the most severe ailments of all custodial inmates, to-wit, chronic granulocytic leukemia. The prisoner filed a pro se 42 U.S.C. § 1983 complaint on May 6, 1985, alleging the defendants demonstrated deliberate indifference to a serious medical need by denying him a bone marrow transplant...

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