District Court, E.D. Wisconsin February 6, 2012, Case No. 10-CV-337 (Johnson v. Meier)

DECISION AND ORDER

LYNN ADELMAN, District Judge.

Plaintiff Markel Johnson, an inmate in a Wisconsin prison, has filed this lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. He alleges that *1117various administrators are subjecting him to cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution by refusing to approve his request for surgery on his knee.