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Court: Immigrant's family can sue over health care

Associated Press - October 2, 2008 4:34 PM ET

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - An appeals court has upheld a decision allowing the family of a man who died of cancer while being detained by immigration officials to sue the government for allegedly denying him medical care.

Francisco Castaneda's relatives allege that government officials for 11 months refused to authorize a meaningful exam of a painful lesion that turned out to be penile cancer. The Salvadoran immigrant, who had faced deportment following a drug conviction, had his penis amputated before dying in February 2007 at age 36.

Four months before he died, Castaneda testified before a House subcommittee that was examining medical care at immigration detention centers.

The government argued unsuccessfully before a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that its employees were protected from lawsuits. The panel unanimously upheld a March decision by a Los Angeles federal judge.

Copyright 2008 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

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