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HAAVISTO v. PERPICH

Nos. C0-92-1719, C7-92-1720.

498 N.W.2d 746 (1993)

Antti John HAAVISTO, Respondent, v. Rudy PERPICH, individually and as Governor of the State of Minnesota, et al., Defendants, Orville B. Pung, individually, and as Corrections Commissioner of the State of Minnesota, et al., Appellants (C0-92-1719), Dr. James Allan, individually and as Medical Director of the Minnesota State Prison at Stillwater, Appellant (C7-92-1720).

Court of Appeals of Minnesota.

Review Granted June 9, 1993.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Marcy S. Wallace, John C. McNulty, Charlotte M. Reed, McNulty & Wallace, St. Paul, for respondent.

Hubert H. Humphrey, III, Atty. Gen., Richard S. Slowes, Asst. Solicitor Gen., St. Paul, for appellants (CO-92-1719).

Timothy R. Murphy, Geraghty, O'Loughlin & Kenney, P.A., St. Paul, for appellant (C7-92-1720).

Considered and decided by NORTON, P.J., and SHORT and MULALLY, JJ.

OPINION

SHORT, Judge.

This case arises out of the tuberculosis epidemic at the Minnesota Correctional Facility at Stillwater (prison) in the mid-1980s. Antti Haavisto alleges the diagnosis of his active tuberculosis was unnecessarily delayed by the prison health care system and in particular, by the conduct of Dr. James Allan (physician). A federal counterpart case was litigated as a class action for injunctive relief. See generally DeGidio v. Pung,<...

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