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 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA

TYRONE GREEN )

Plaintiffs, )

v. ) C.A. No. 03-149 Erie

) District Judge McLaughlin

MARTIN HORN, et al. ) Magistrate Judge Baxter

Defendants. )

MEMORANDUM ORDER

Procedural History

On May 2, 2003, Plaintiff, a state prisoner appearing pro se, filed the instant civil rights

action. This matter was assigned to United States District Judge Sean J. McLaughlin and was

referred to United States Magistrate Judge Susan Paradise Baxter for report and

recommendation in accordance with the Magistrates Act, 28 U.S.C. § 636(b)(1), and Rules

72.1.3 and 72.1.4 of the Local Rules for Magistrates. 

On July 27, 2005, Magistrate Judge Baxter issued a Report and Recommendation

recommending that this case be dismissed. Document # 66. 

Plaintiff filed Objections to the Report and Recommendation. Documents # 67 and 69. 

Defendant Baker has filed a response to Plaintiff’s Objections [Document # 68], but the

Commonwealth Defendants have not filed a response.

De Novo Review

Plaintiff alleges that following a fall he was denied prescribed followup medical

treatment (in the form of a permanent cast for a broken hand) in violation of his Eighth

Amendment rights. In his original complaint, Plaintiff explains:

On August 26, 2002, Plaintiff was transported to Millcreek Hospital wherein

Plaintiff was issued a temporary cast which was placed upon Plaintiff’s broken

hand. Plaintiff was given said temporary cast due to the immense swelling in his

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right hand. Plaintiff was scheduled by attending physicians to have the

temporary cast removed in two (2) days to have [been] replaced with full cast. 

Plaintiff was never rescheduled or transported back to Millcreek Hospital for his

replaced cast by the institution. ... The Institution’s medical department failed to

adhere to physicians instructions for returning Plaintiff for his intended full cast. 

Document # 1. 

In her Report and Recommendation, Magistrate Judge Baxter specifically noted that the

illegible medical records provided by Defendants (as well as the lack of an affidavit

summarizing the medical records) hampered her analysis. Magistrate Judge Baxter then

concluded that Plaintiff had not raised a triable issue of fact with respect to his allegations of

deliberate indifference because he had received repeated medical care for his hand and because

there was nothing in the medical records which specifically indicated that Plaintiff’s hand

needed to be cast after the swelling subsided. Document # 66, page 9.

In his Objections, Plaintiff argued that there is a notation in the medical records which

reads: “Patient is to be sent to Millcreek Hospital via state corrections for casting.” That

notation in the medical records is signed by Physician’s Assitant Telega, a Department of

Corrections’ employee. Document # 67, pages 2 and 13. This reading of the notation is

uncontradicted by Defendants. 

In his Objections, Plaintiff also complains that the medical record is not complete as the

files from Millcreek Hospital are missing and he complains that Dr. Baker has not responded to

his discovery requests dated June 16, 2005. Id. 

In light of the previously described medical record, as well as the lack of a response from

Defendant Dr. Baker to Plaintiff’s requests for discovery, the motions to dismiss or for summary

judgment must be denied.

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AND NOW, this 7th day of September, 2005;

Following a de novo review of the record in this case, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that

the pending motions to dismiss or for summary judgment [Documents # 51, 58 and 60] are

DENIED. The Report and Recommendation by Magistrate Judge Baxter is not adopted as the

opinion of this Court. 

IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that this case is referred back to Magistrate Judge Baxter

for further pre-trial proceedings.

S/ Sean J. McLaughlin

SEAN J. MCLAUGHLIN

UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

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