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Civil Liability
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Products Liability

     Prisoner who claimed that the ingestion of an amino acid vitamin purchased at the prison canteen damaged his liver did not state a claim against correctional employees for violation of his Eighth Amendment rights, in the absence of any evidence that they acted with deliberate indifference in making the product available for purchase. Federal trial court acted within its discretion in declining to exercise jurisdiction over the prisoner's state law products liability claims against prison officials and the manufacturer of the vitamin. Woodberry v. Bruce, No. 04-3100, 109 Fed. Appx. 370 (10th Cir. 2004). [N/R]

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