A federal judge has refused to dismiss a lawsuit filed by Ronald Rogacki, represented by attorney Michael Fairhurst, against Jefferson County and Wellpath, the jail's medical contractor, along with several Wellpath medical staff. Mr. Rogacki alleges that while held in the Jefferson County jail from August 2019 to January 2020, he was denied treatment for a chronic sinus infection despite repeated requests. In her October 2022 order, U.S. District Judge Charlotte Sweeney found that he plausibly alleged deliberate indifference to his serious medical needs by each defendant, and gave him 14 days to substitute the proper county defendant.
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