CASE PREVIEW · United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan
Burnett v Howard
State Action and Malpractice Pleading in Prisoner Cancer-Care Suit
Decided
The citation
Burnett v Howard, opinion of the United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan, issued October 29, 2026 (Case No. 2:26-cv-00090)
From the case summary
State prisoner Michael Angelo Burnett alleged that urologist Michael Howard diagnosed aggressive prostate cancer but prescribed no treatment and made no oncology referral. He sought damages and injunctive relief and moved for a temporary restraining order. Burnett consented to magistrate-judge jurisdiction; because Howard was unserved,…
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