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HERNANDEZ v. KEANE

Docket No. 00-0347.

341 F.3d 137 (2003)

Juan HERNANDEZ, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. John P. KEANE, Dr. Satish Kapoor, Dr. E. Lofton, Dr. Khee Tint Maw, Dr. M.A. Halko, Dr. Alexis Lang, P.A. Philip Williams, Kathy Greiner, Charles Greiner, C.O. Hattie Cradle, C.O. Edward Clark, Sgt. Marion Brown, and Sgt. Sean Murphy, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: August 20, 2003.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

JASON E. HALPER, Lowenstein Sandler PC, Roseland, N.J. (Martin E. Karlinsky, Katten Muchin Zavis Rosenman, New York, NY, on the brief), for Plaintiff-Appellant.

WILLIAM B. JAFFE, Assistant Attorney General (Eliot Spitzer, Attorney General of the State of New York, Marion R. Buchbinder, Assistant Solicitor General, on the brief), New York, NY, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before: WALKER, Chief Judge, JACOBS and CALABRESI, Circuit Judges.

DENNIS JACOBS, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiff-appellant Juan Hernandez, a prisoner in the New York State prison system, sued various state prison officials in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Pitman, J.), alleging that they violated the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment by their deliberate indifference to his serious medical needs. A jury returned a verdict in his favor and apportioned approximately...

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