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SCOTT v. AMBANI

No. 08-1671.

577 F.3d 642 (2009)

James SCOTT, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Nitin AMBANI, M.D., Ardeshir Faghihnia, M.D., Molly Sullivan, M.D., Audberto Antonini, M.D., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided and Filed: August 18, 2009.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ON BRIEF: Loretta B. Subhi, Hackney Grover Hoover & Bean, PLC, East Lansing, Michigan, Ronald W. Chapman, Kimberly A. Koester, Chapman and Associates, P.C., Bloomfield Hill, Michigan, Richard C. Kraus, Foster, Swift, Collins & Smith, P.C., Lansing, Michigan, for Appellees. James Charles Scott, St. Louis, Michigan, pro se.

SILER, J., delivered the opinion of the court, in which COOK, J., joined. McKEAGUE, J. (pp. 649-50), delivered a separate opinion concurring in part and dissenting in part.

OPINION

SILER, Circuit Judge.

James Scott, a prisoner who is serving a life sentence, alleges that the defendants, all of them physicians, were deliberately indifferent to his medical needs in connection with his treatment for prostate cancer. Defendants filed motions to dismiss pursuant to Rule 12(b)(6) and motions for summary judgment. The district court dismissed Scott's claims against all defendants. We affirm the district court's judgment as to Drs...

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