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DERRICKSON v. KEVE

Civ. A. No. 74-110.

390 F.Supp. 905 (1975)

Charles R. DERRICKSON, Plaintiff, v. Paul KEVE, in his capacity as Director, Division of Adult Corrections, State of Delaware, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Delaware.

March 7, 1975.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard D. Albright, Community Legal Aid Society, Inc., Wilmington, Del., for plaintiff.

Francis A. Reardon, Deputy Atty. Gen., of Delaware, for defendants.

OPINION

LAYTON, District Judge:

At issue in this case is the extent of the State's obligation to furnish medical care to one of its prisoners.

Charles Derrickson is serving a life sentence in the Delaware Correctional Center at Smyrna. On August 1, 1973, a hospital radiologist examined Plaintiff and concluded that he suffered from "right maxillary sinusitis." An otolaryngologist concluded that he also suffered from a deviated nasal septum and sinus...

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