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HOWELL v. BURDEN

No. 93-8129.

12 F.3d 190 (1994)

Willa Dean HOWELL, Individually and as administratrix of the estate of Van Howell, Plaintiff-Appellant, Lisa Howell, through her natural guardian and next friend Willa Dean Howell, Lori Miller, Plaintiffs, v. Charles E. BURDEN, individually and as Superintendent of Augusta Correctional and Medical Institution, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

January 21, 1994.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Vincent Cook, Cook, Noell, Tolley & Wiggins, Athens, GA, for plaintiff-appellant.

Stephen E. Curry, Augusta, GA, John C. Jones, Asst. Atty. Gen., Atlanta, GA, for defendant-appellee.

Before ANDERSON and DUBINA, Circuit Judges, and GODBOLD, Senior Circuit Judge.

GODBOLD, Senior Circuit Judge:

This is the second appeal in a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 case that arises out of the death of Van Howell, a Georgia prisoner. It was brought against several medical and prison officials by Howell's widow, who alleges that the defendants were deliberately indifferent to Howell's health in violation of the Eighth Amendment.

Howell suffered from asthma. He died in January 1985 after a severe asthma attack, in the Augusta Correctional...

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