The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has revived part of a lawsuit a prisoner filed pro se, alleging he received inadequate medical treatment for a hemorrhoid condition that eventually worsened.

The Second Circuit dismissed three of 18 named defendants in the lawsuit by James Harnage, a prisoner at the MacDougall-Walker Correctional Institution in Suffield. The judicial panel, though, ruled unanimously to reverse the ruling of U.S. District Judge Alvin Thompson, who had dismissed the lawsuit in its entirety.