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Bernier v. Allen

1:16-cv-00828 | U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

Filed Date: May 3, 2016

Closed Date: Sept. 6, 2022

Plaintiff, proceeding pro se, filed this lawsuit on May 3, 2016 against the United States and the Federal Bureau of Prisons (FBOP), the medical director of the FBOP, and Gilead Sciences in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.  He brought claims under Bivens, challenging the delayed treatment of his chronic Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) -- and FBOP's related policies for determining DAA eligibility and priority -- as a violation of the Eighth Amendment. Plaintiff further alleged that …
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Allah v. Thomas

2:15-cv-05593 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Oct. 9, 2015

Closed Date: April 9, 2021

On October 9, 2015 plaintiff filed a complaint against several prison officials and medical providers at SC-Chester, a state prison in Pennsylvania. Plaintiff, an incarcerated individual with chronic Hepatitis C virus (HCV) and other illnesses filed his lawsuit under Section 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania alleging violations of the First and Eighth Amendments. The case was assigned to Judge Gene E.K. Pratter. Plaintiff alleged that he was improperly den…
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Turner v. Wetzel

4:18-cv-00361 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Jan. 19, 2018

Case Ongoing

Plaintiff, a person serving a life sentence in the custody of the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, was diagnosed with Hepatitis C virus (HCV) in the mid 1990s and, in this lawsuit, sought to compel the Department to provide direct acting antiviral (DAA) treatment.  On January 19, 2018, plaintiff filed this action pro se in the Court of Common Pleas for Schuylkill County against various employees of the Department of Corrections ("DOC defendants") and Correct Care Solutions, the Departmen…
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Melnik v. Aranas

2:17-cv-02378 | U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada

Filed Date: Sept. 5, 2017

Case Ongoing

On September 5, 2017, plaintiff, a person incarcerated in the custody of the Nevada Department of Corrections (NDOC), initiated this lawsuit (pro se, initially) by filing a motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis in the U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada. By direction of the court, plaintiff's complaint was docketed on July 2, 2018.  Plaintiff sued the Medical Director of NDOC, alleging that he was denied treatment for Hepatitis C virus (HCV) from 2015-2017, even though he was…
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Bender v. Regier

4:01-cv-04151 | U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota

Filed Date: July 2, 2001

Closed Date: Nov. 18, 2004

On July 2, 2001, plaintiff filed this action pro se in the U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota.  The case was assigned to Judge Lawrence L. Piersol. Plaintiff had been diagnosed with Hepatitis C virus (HCV) while in the custody of the South Dakota Department of Corrections in 1998, and, in the intervening years, was evaluated on numerous occasions by Department medical staff but never provided interferon-based treatment.  In his complaint and in an amended complaint filed on Se…
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Iseley v. Talaber

1:04-cv-00861 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: April 21, 2004

Closed Date: March 30, 2005

Plaintiff, incarcerated at the State Correctional Institution at Houtzdale, Pennsylvania, filed this action pro se on April 21, 2004, in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania.  He brought claims under 42 U.S.C. Section 1983 alleging that various officials and medical personnel of the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections (the "DOC") failed to provide adequate treatment for his Hepatitis C virus (HCV), in violation of the Eighth Amendment and as unlawful retaliation fo…
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Coleman-Bey v. United States

1:06-cv-01855 | U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

Filed Date: Oct. 31, 2006

Closed Date: Sept. 11, 2007

Petitioner, a person in the custody of the Federal Bureau of Prisons incarcerated at the United States Penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana, originally filed this pro se petition for a writ of mandamus in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia on October 13, 2006.  The action was removed to the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on October 31, 2006 and assigned to U.S. District Judge John D. Bates.  Petitioner, who had Hepatitis C virus (HCV), alleged that the federal gove…
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Roppolo v. Linthicum

2:19-cv-00262 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas

Filed Date: Sept. 11, 2019

Case Ongoing

On September 11, 2017, individuals with Hepatitis C detained by the state of Texas brought this suit against the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) and its medical providers: Correctional Managed Healthcare Committee and the University of Texas Medical Branch. Hepatitis C, if left untreated, causes severe damage to a person’s liver. Yet Texas refused to provide Direct Acting Antiviral (DAA) medications to persons in custody of its state prison system, which the plaintiffs alleged viola…
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West v. Gobeille

2:19-cv-00081 | U.S. District Court for the District of Vermont

Filed Date: May 21, 2019

Case Ongoing

On May 21, 2019, incarcerated individuals in Vermont with chronic hepatitis C (HCV) filed a class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Vermont, and Judge William K. Sessions III presided. The plaintiffs alleged that the Vermont Department of Corrections, its leadership, and its medical contractors violated the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution by withholding treatment from incarcerated individuals wit…
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Orr v. Elyea

2:08-cv-02232 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois

Filed Date: Sept. 29, 2008

Case Ongoing

This case is about people with Hepatitis C who were or had been incarcerated in the Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC). Represented by private counsel, around 75 incarcerated plaintiffs filed this putative class action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Central District of Illinois on September 29, 2008. Over the course of this decade long litigation, numerous other individual plaintiffs were joined, with the number of plaintiffs eventually growing to be around 1,800. In…