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SIRES v. BERMAN

No. 87-1243.

834 F.2d 9 (1987)

William S. SIRES, Jr., Plaintiff, Appellant, v. Louis M. BERMAN, et al., Defendants, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided November 24, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Margaret H. Marshall with whom Leonard M. Singer, by Appointment of the Court, and Csaplar & Bok, Boston, Mass., were on brief for appellant.

William A. Mitchell, Asst. Atty. Gen., Civ. Bureau, with whom Mark P. Sutliff, Asst. Atty. Gen., Civ. Bureau, and James M. Shannon, Atty. Gen., Boston, Mass., were on brief for appellees William Callahan, Michael Walonis, Cecil Driscoll, Vera Derosa, Joan Dalton, Ruth Balboni, Steven Chretian, Jean Plasse and John Krikorian.

Thomas C. Federico with whom Peter C. Knight, Bruce R. Henry and Morrison, Mahoney & Miller, Boston, Mass., were on brief for appellees Ronald I. Goldberg & Associates, Shirley Greene and John J. McNulty.

Before COFFIN, ALDRICH and TORRUELLA, Circuit Judges.

TORRUELLA, Circuit Judge.

Sires, plaintiff below, appeals from summary judgment on a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action brought against the medical staff, supervisors and guards of the Massachusetts Correctional Institute at Norfolk (MCI-Norfolk) (nineteen defendants in all) where he is an inmate. The complaint alleges that several of the defendants demonstrated a deliberate indifference to Sires' medical needs in violation of the eighth amendment, while others are accused...

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