On May 6, 1985, an individual inmate suffering from leukemia filed a pro se Section 1983 complaint against the Warden of the Iowa State Penitentiary, the Director of the Iowa Department of Corrections, and The Iowa City Medical Center in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa. Plaintiff alleged that defendants demonstrated deliberate indifference to his medical needs when they denied him a bone marrow transplant and failed to give him adequate pain medication.

The District Court (Judge Charles R. Wolle) granted defendants' motion for summary judgment, and plaintiff subsequently appealed.

On April 10, 1989, the Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit (Judges Donald P. Lay, Theodore McMillian, and Roger L. Wollman) affirmed in part and reversed in part. Crooks v. Nix, 872 F.2d 800 (8th Cir. 1989). Writing for the court, Judge Lay affirmed the District Court's dismissal of plaintiff's claim of deliberate indifference based on his need for a bone marrow transplant. The court reversed and remanded plaintiff's claim based on inadequate pain medication, holding that material questions of fact precluded entry of summary judgment for defendants.

The docket for this case is unavailable on PACER so we have no information about subsequent proceedings or any other issue.

Chris Sullivan - 08/02/2005


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