Hickey v. Burrillville, 91-7401 (1996)

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• holding that courts must balance the petitioner’s interest against “the competing interests of protecting the finality of judgments and the expeditious termination of litigation.”
• dismissing a deliberate indifference claim against the prison official who was responsible for the delay in scheduling a surgery for the plaintiff’s broken arm because there was no evidence he was aware of the severity of the injury

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