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WOOD v. HOUSEWRIGHT

No. 87-2519.

900 F.2d 1332 (1990)

David Poe WOOD, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Vernon G. HOUSEWRIGHT, George Sumner, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided April 2, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jerome I. Braun, Douglas R. Young, Jennifer Schwartz, Farella, Braun & Martel, San Francisco, Cal., for plaintiff-appellant.

Brian McKay, Atty. Gen., Waldo DeCastroverde, Deputy Atty. Gen., State of Nevada, Carson City, Nev., for defendants-appellees.

Before HUG, FARRIS and REINHARDT, Circuit Judges.

FARRIS, Circuit Judge:

David Poe Wood, an inmate at the Nevada State Prison sued Vernon Housewright, then Director of the Nevada State Department of Prisons, and George Sumner, Warden of the Nevada State Prison, in the United States District Court for the District of Nevada seeking damages and injunctive relief under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Wood alleged that the defendants were liable for: 1) deliberate indifference by the prison staff to his medical needs, and 2)...

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