Date: 11-05-2024

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Lamone M. Johnson v. Dr. Sanders, et al.

Case Number: 6:19-CV-269

Judge: John F. Heil

Court: United States District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma (Muskogee County)

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Defendant's Attorney: Darrell L. Moore

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Muskogee, Oklahoma civil rights lawyers represented the Plaintiff seeking additional medical care.

Plaintiff-Appellant Lamone Johnson, a male-to-female transgender woman, 1
appeals the district court’s grant of summary judgment against her on a single 42
U.S.C. § 1983 claim for deliberate indifference to serious medical needs.
Ms. Johnson asserted the claim against two Oklahoma prison employees—a prison
physician and the prison’s health services administrator—flowing from the decision
to discontinue the hormone replacement therapy (HRT) Ms. Johnson had been taking
for three years prior to her incarceration at the facility where Defendants-Appellees
are employed. The district court concluded that no reasonable jury could find
Defendants acted with deliberate indifference to Ms. Johnson’s medical needs
because her HRT was discontinued in compliance with correctional policy. That
policy, the district court concluded, did not permit Defendants to continue
Ms. Johnson’s HRT after a correctional psychologist rendered an opinion that she did
not have gender dysphoria.

Outcome: Affirmed

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