Prowse v. Payne, No. 19-2569 (8th Cir. 2021)
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Plaintiff, an inmate of the ADC, filed a pro se 42 U.S.C. 1983 action alleging that ADC had denied her hormone therapy to treat her diagnosed gender dysphoria in violation of her constitutional rights. The district court dismissed the amended complaint with prejudice for failure to state a claim. After plaintiff appealed, the parties informed the court for the first time that plaintiff was in fact already receiving hormone therapy and had been for several months.
The Eighth Circuit held that plaintiff's request for injunctive relief in the form of hormone therapy is moot. Therefore, the district court's judgment on the hormone therapy claim is vacated and remanded with directions to dismiss it as moot. The court affirmed the district court's dismissal of the action in all other respects.
Court Description: [Kelly, Author, with Wollman and Stras, Circuit Judges] Prisoner case - Prisoner civil rights. In action alleging defendants had denied plaintiff's civil rights by denying her hormone therapy to treat her diagnosed gender dysphoria, defendants' counsel informed this court at oral argument that plaintiff had been receiving hormone therapy for several months; the court then ordered further briefing as to whether the matter was moot and, after reviewing these supplemental findings, now determines that plaintiff's request for injunctive relief in the form of hormone therapy is moot; the district court's judgment on the hormone therapy claim is vacated and remanded with directions to dismiss it as moot; in all other respects, the district court's dismissal of plaintiff's action is affirmed.
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