U.S. appeals court deliberate indifference handicap cells.

• Position: Medical Care - Brief Article

Beck v. Skon, 253 F.3d 330 (8th Cir. 2001). An inmate brought a [section] 1983 action alleging that p son officials violated his constitutional rights by failing to relocate him to a different cell, failing to provide him with prescribed medication, and conditioning his having needed surgery on his execution of a release of liability. The district court entered summary judgment in favor of the officials and the inmate appealed. The appeals court affirmed in part, reversed in part, and remanded. The appeals court held that fact issues remained as to whether officials conditioned the inmate's surgery on release of all future liability, precluding summary judgment. The...