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Smith v. Fields

Certiorari Denied

Petition for certiorari denied on March 26, 2012.

Docket No.11-561
Op. Below7th Cir.

Issue

(1) Whether the Seventh Circuit erred by upholding an injunction against a state law prohibiting the use of public funds to finance sexual reassignment surgery for inmates; and (2) whether the Eighth Amendment requires state prisons to treat gender identity disorder with hormone therapy to make an inmate look more like the opposite gender.

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