DeGIDIO v. PUNG

Nos. 89-5484, 89-5505.

920 F.2d 525 (1990)

Anthony DeGIDIO, James Murray, Antti John Haavisto, individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated, Appellees/Cross-Appellants, v. Orville B. PUNG, individually, Robert Erickson, individually, Sister Mary Madonna Ashton, individually, Appellants/Cross-Appellees. St. Paul-Ramsey Medical Center, John Does and Jane Roes their employees, agents and servants whom are unidentified and unknown at this time.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided December 4, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard S. Slowes, St. Paul, Minn., for appellants/cross-appellees.

Arlo H. Vande Vegte, Long Lake, Minn., for appellees/cross-appellants.

Before MAGILL and BEAM, Circuit Judges, and ROSS, Senior Circuit Judge.


BEAM, Circuit Judge.

Anthony DeGidio and several other inmates at the Minnesota Correctional Facility at Stillwater filed this class action lawsuit in April of 1984, under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (1988), alleging that the tuberculosis screening and control procedures at Stillwater were so inadequate that they constituted cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the eighth amendment. On January 19, 1989, following a nonjury...

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