BATES v. MORRIS et al

Filing 111

ORDER indicating that Magistrate Judge Lenihan's Report and Recommendation No. 110 is adopted as the opinion of this Court; that Defendants' Motion for Summary Judgment 98 is granted, in part, and denied, in part. Said Motion 98 is granted as to the deliberate indifference to serious medical needs claim (Counts 4 and 6) against Defendant John Watson, L.P.N. but is denied in all other respects. Signed by Judge Nora Barry Fischer on 9/14/18. (jg)

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA
KEVIN BATES,

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Plaintiff,
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LIEUTENANT A.J. MORRIS, et al.,

Defendants.

Civil Action No. 15-780
Judge Nora Barry Fischer
Magistrate Judge Lisa Pupo Lenihan

ORDER OF COURT
AND NOW, this 14th day of September, 2018, after a Report and Recommendation was
filed by Magistrate Judge Lisa Pupo Lenihan on August 22, 2018, (Docket No. [110]),
recommending that Defendants’ Motion for Summary Judgment (Docket No. [98]) be granted, in
part, and denied, in part, and the parties were provided 14 days to file written objections thereto,
making objections due from Defendants, as ecf registered parties, by September 5, 2018, and
from Plaintiff, as an unregistered ecf party, by September 10, 2018, and no objections having
been lodged by this date, and upon independent review of the record, and upon consideration of
Magistrate Judge Lenihan’s Report and Recommendation, (Docket No. [110]), which is adopted
as the opinion of this Court,
IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that Defendants’ Motion for Summary Judgment [98] is
GRANTED, IN PART, and DENIED, IN PART. Said Motion [98] is granted as to the deliberate
indifference to serious medical needs claim (Counts 4 and 6) against Defendant John Watson,
L.P.N. but is denied in all other respects.
s/ Nora Barry Fischer
Nora Barry Fischer, U.S. District Judge

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cc/ecf: Magistrate Judge Lisa Pupo Lenihan
All counsel of record
Kevin Bates
SCI Greene
175 Progress Dive
Waynesburg, PA 15370

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