Louis Martinez v. Vincent R. Mancusi, Warden, Attica Prison, Dr. Williams, Dr. Stamburg, and Nurse Hoffman, Attica Prison

How courts have described this case

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• granting relief when doctor forced prisoner to walk out of hospital without hospital-ordered pain medication and stand for meals after plaintiff had leg surgery for which hospital specialist had ordered plaintiff to lie flat and not to walk
• prison doctor refused to give prescribed painkiller to prisoner who had undergone operation, and otherwise ignored surgeons’ instructions
• “Although Federal Courts are reluctant to interfere in the normal processes of state prison administration, they will not hesitate to intervene when action is clearly necessary to protect a prisoner’s constitutional rights.”
• “the warden cannot escape liability by claiming that . .. whatever was done was done by the guards. It is alleged that he ordered them to move appellant without obtaining a discharge, and they were following his orders.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).