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LUTHER v. COMPTON

5 S.W.3d 635 (1999)

Harry LUTHER, Appellee, v. Billy COMPTON, Warden; Ben Lindemood, Warden; Donnie Noles, Warden; Donna Klutts, P.A.; Edna Freemen, Health Administrator; Jane Vernon, Director of Nurses; Pat Burch, L.P.N.; Britton Morton, L.P.N.; Jimmy Childress, Vo-Tech Shop Instructor; Kenny Foster, Vo-Tech Security Officer; and Roy O'Steen, Safety Inspector, Appellants.

Supreme Court of Tennessee, at Jackson.

November 22, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. Lewis Jenkins, Jr., Dyersburg, TN, for Appellee.

Paul G. Summers, Attorney General and Reporter, Michael E. Moore, Solicitor General, Patricia C. Kussman, Assistant Attorney General, Nashville, TN, for Appellant.

OPINION

BIRCH, Justice.

I

We granted review in this case to determine if the plaintiff should be allowed to conduct additional discovery on his claim that the defendants1 were "deliberate[ly] indifferen[t]" to his serious medical needs. In addition, we will consider whether the plaintiff's 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and negligence claims were properly dismissed pursuant to the defendants' motion for summary judgment...

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