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BENTER v. PECK

Civ. No. 4-92-CV-20085.

825 F.Supp. 1411 (1993)

Dean BENTER, Plaintiff, v. Dr. Glenn PECK, Ronald Welder, and Karl Kemp, Defendants.

United States District Court, S.D. Iowa, C.D.

June 25, 1993.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jeffrey M. Lipman of Lipman Law Firm, Des Moines, IA, for plaintiff.

Bruce C. McDonald of Dickey, Smith, Kultala and McDonald Firm, Keokuk, IA, for Glenn Peck and Karl Kemp.

Asst. Atty. Gen., R. Andrew Humphrey, Des Moines, IA, for Ronald Welder.

OPINION AND JUDGMENT

BREMER, United States Magistrate Judge.

Plaintiff Dean Benter, an inmate at the Iowa State Penitentiary (ISP), brings this action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, claiming he was subjected to cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the Eighth Amendment. Benter claims that Defendants were deliberately indifferent to a serious medical need when they withheld his prescription eyeglasses to compel him to pay for the glasses. Benter seeks...

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