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RUIZ-ROSA v. RULLÁN

No. 06-1761.

485 F.3d 150 (2007)

Angelina RUIZ-ROSA, Plaintiff, Appellant, v. Johnny RULLÁN, Secretary of the Department of Health of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, et al., Defendants, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided April 24, 2007.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

José R. Olmo-Rodríguez, for appellant.

Susana I. Peñagarícano-Brown, Assistant Solicitor General, Department of Justice, with whom Salvador J. Antonetti-Stutts, Solicitor General, and Maite D. Oronoz-Rodríguez, Deputy Solicitor General, were on brief, for appellees.

Before TORRUELLA and LIPEZ, Circuit Judges, and DiCLERICO, JR., District Judge.

DiCLERICO, District Judge.

Angelina Ruiz-Rosa brought suit against officials of the Puerto Rico prison system and prison medical personnel after her eighteen-year-old son, Jose Luis Machuca-Ruiz, died of septicemia while being detained at the Bayamón 1072 Correctional Complex ("BCC"). In her amended complaint, Ruiz alleged violations of the Fifth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments, actionable under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, and medical malpractice under Puerto Rico...

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