Court revives suit against ex-prison doctor

Associated Press

CINCINNATI

An appeals court has revived a lawsuit against a former Ohio prison doctor who was sued after the 2011 suicide of an inmate under his care.

The Ohio Justice and Policy Center alleged inmate Gregory Stamper was in severe pain from damage to his nervous system but had been refused medication by Dr. Myron Shank to help ease the pain.

A federal judge said last year the doctor reasonably concluded the medications he provided hadn’t worked, and also that Stamper had misused medication.

The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals disagreed in a ruling last week.