Porretti v. Dzurenda
9th Cir. No. 20-16111
Rights Behind Bars, along with Makris Legal Services, LLC, represents Wayne Porretti, an incarcerated man who was taken off the antipsychotic medications he needs to function for non-medical reasons. After close to three years of struggling to get back on his required medication, while he was proceeding almost exclusively without a lawyer, he obtained a preliminary injunction requiring the prison to allow an outside doctor to prescribe his medications. Rights Behind Bars represents Porretti in Nevada's appeal of this preliminary injunction to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
In a published opinion, the Ninth Circuit affirmed the district court’s preliminary injunction requiring prison officials to provide plaintiff certain medication while incarcerated.
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