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Georgia Appeals Court Upholds $600,000 Judgment Against CMS
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On July 5, 2001, the Court of Appeals of Georgia Upheld a trial court's
$600,000 award to Stephanie Stitt, a former state
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for prisoners
to demand it. Although a CMS spokesman insisted that CMS doctors are
privatecontractors and that "it is the individual physician's
responsibility to make sure care is given to patients
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Prison and CMS Liable for Prisoner's Asthma Death
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The court of appeals for the Eleventh circuit held that Georgia prison officials were liable for a prisoner's death from asthma
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."' The former were employees of Correctional Medical Services (CMS). The complaint alleged that the defendants were deliberately indifferent to the prisoner's safety, in violation of the Eighth Amendment
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. After the defendants filed motions for summary judgment, the court found that genuine issues of material fact existed solely for plaintiff Freddie Mills.
Mills' claim grew from CMS's failure to provide
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Jury Need Decide Superintendents Liability in GA Prisoner's Death by This case was before the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals for the second time on a 42 U.S.C. §1983 action arising from the death, after a severe asthma attack, of a Georgia prisoner. The first appeal, Howell v. Evans, 922 …
Eighth Circuit Upholds Judgment Against CMS For Delayed Dental Care
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In an unpublished opinion filed on August 7, 2001, the U.S. Eighth Circuit
Court of Appeals upheld a judgment against
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CMS Doctor Not Liable for Delaying Bone Graft
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The plaintiff saw a specialist who said he needed a bone graft procedure
immediately, and the prison doctor defendant recommended that he get
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CMS Liable as State Actor For Denying HCV Care in NJ
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The plaintiff complained about his medical care, reciting a long and
tortured history of his treatment and non-treatment for Hepatitis
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Debruyn,
Health Care and CMS will be liable in a large monetary damages."
Plaintiff's mention of Defendant CMS, however, is not done "against the
person or persons he ultimately seeks to sue." Curry, 249 F
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Pro Se Suit against CMS and Aramark Dismissed
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The plaintiff's release from prison moots his request for declaratory and
injunctive relief.
The plaintiff's claim for "emotional
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was unconstitutional and invalid.
The Missouri Department of Corrections (DOC) and its medical provider, Correctional Medical Services (CMS), routinely transported women prisoners to abortion clinics at the prisoners
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U.S. Supreme Court: Failure to Exhaust Remedies Is an Affirmative Defense Under the PLRA by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg A unanimous U.S. Supreme Court held on January 22, 2007 that when a prisoner files an action governed by the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA), the question of whether …
Services (CMS) and Prime Care Medical (PCM) alleging
that the denial of proper medical treatment by defendants violated his
Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment rights. Wall sought, among other things,
$250,000
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$450,000 Award Against CMS, County In Death of Illinois Jail Prisoner
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On May 16, 2002, a jury found Correctional Medical Services (CMS) of
Illinois and Kane County liable for the death
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Missouri Attaches Prisoner's Award Against CMS, 8th Cir Remands
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On July 28, 2003, the U.S. 8th Circuit Court of Appeals ordered a district
court to reconsider whether the State
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Complaints of Pain May State 8th Amendment Claim
In February of 2002, Robert Taylor, a Missouri state prisoner, injured his
knee. A Correctional Medical Services (CMS) doctor named Steven
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Court Rules on Consolidated Suits against CMS in New Jersey
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The court disposes of summary judgment motions in 15 consolidated cases
concerning medical care provided by Correctional
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Medical Services (CMS). While the mentally ill are hidden behind steel doors, those with medical conditions are often transferred off to privateprison or have to be taken to the hospital because
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Deplorable Delaware Prisoner Health Care; Another Prisoner Death Results by by David M. Reutter Despite mainstream media pressure, public outcry, and a federal investigation, the Delaware Department of Corrections (DDOC) continues to keep its head in the sand about prisoner health care. Not surprisingly, it has resulted in another prisoner's …
