HAFNER v. DELANO

No. 18434.

520 N.W.2d 587 (1994)

Richard HAFNER, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. Lynn DELANO, Individually and as Secretary of the South Dakota Department of Charities and Corrections; South Dakota Department of Charities and Corrections [sic] South Dakota Department of Corrections; Walter Leapley, Individually and as Warden of the South Dakota State Penitentiary; Beverly Armstrong, R.N., [sic] (Armfield), Individually and as an Agent of the South Dakota State Penitentiary; Steve Jacobson, Individually and as an Agent of the South Dakota State Penitentiary; Edward Ligtenberg, Individually and as an Agent of the South Dakota State Penitentiary; Richard Ziegler, Individually and as an Agent of the South Dakota State Penitentiary, Defendants and Appellees, and Dr. James Oakland, Individually and as Agent of the South Dakota State Penitentiary; Daniel Blue, M.D., Individually and as an Agent of the State of South Dakota State Penitentiary; David Hoversten, M.D., Individually and as an Agent of the South Dakota State Penitentiary; Larry B. Vanderwoude, M.D., Individually and as an Agent of the South Dakota State Penitentiary; Michael Olson, M.D., Individually and as an Agent of the South Dakota State Penitentiary, Defendants.

Supreme Court of South Dakota.

Decided August 10, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Steve Jorgensen, Sioux Falls, for plaintiff and appellant.

Richard J. Helsper and Eric N. Rasmussen of Erickson, Helsper & Rasmussen Brookings, for defendants and appellees.


MILLER, Chief Justice.

Hafner appeals summary judgment granted to prison officials and personnel he sued, claiming that while he was incarcerated in the South Dakota State Penitentiary they were deliberately indifferent to his serious medical needs, thereby violating his Eighth Amendment rights. We affirm.

FACTS

Richard Hafner was sentenced to the South Dakota Penitentiary in March, 1989, after pleading guilty to the second-degree rape of his fifteen...

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