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LOPEZ v. WARD

No. 85 Civ. 9195 (KC).

681 F.Supp. 192 (1988)

Angel LOPEZ, Plaintiff, v. Benjamin WARD; Otis Bantum; Sherri Kingston; Robert Keith; Kenneth Jameson; "Dr. Berman"; Richard Pankowitz, M.D.; Emanuel Wilkes, M.D.; Montefiore Hospital and Medical Center; City of New York, Defendants.

United States District Court, S.D. New York.

February 26, 1988.

OPINION AND ORDER

CONBOY, District Judge:

This case involves a prisoner who has suffered total blindness in one eye following an accident while incarcerated in the City jail at Rikers Island. His civil rights claim asserts that the City and its agents caused his blindness through the establishment and maintenance of a policy of inadequate and substandard medical care at the Rikers Island facility.

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