BROOKS v. COLORADO DEPT. OF CORRECTIONS

No. 19-1390.

12 F.4th 1160 (2021)

Jason BROOKS, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. COLORADO DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS; Julie Russell; Kathy Howell; David Tessier, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

FILED September 8, 2021.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Angela Boettcher * and Aja Robbins ,** Boulder, Colorado ( Matthew Cushing , Matthew Cushing PLLC, Boulder, Colorado, on the briefs), for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Karen Lorenz , Assistant Attorney General ( Philip J. Weiser , Colorado Attorney General, with her on the brief), Colorado Department of Law, Ralph L. Carr Judicial Center, Denver, Colorado, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before TYMKOVICH, Chief Judge, BRISCOE, and MURPHY, Circuit Judges.


I. INTRODUCTION

At the time this appeal was initiated, Jason Brooks was a Colorado-state inmate serving a lengthy prison sentence for securities fraud. Brooks has an extreme and incurable case of ulcerative colitis. As a result, even when his disease is well treated, Brooks suffers from frequent, unpredictable fecal...

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