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The state this week agreed to settle a civil rights lawsuit filed by an inmate against the state prison's medical director for refusing to provide hormone therapy.

But the details of the agreement between the Nebraska Attorney General's office and Riley Shadle aren't being released by either side, citing confidentiality.

"I can tell you that Riley does have a serious medical condition that the prison is agreeing to treat as is its obligation to treat any serious medical condition," Shadle's attorney, Jeanelle Lust, said in an email Tuesday.

When asked about the state's decision to settle, Attorney General spokeswoman Suzanne Gage said: "By law, inmate medical records are private."

Neither she nor a spokeswoman for the Department of Correctional Services would say whether Shadle's case created a path for how the state's prisons will deal with medical requests by transgender inmates going forward.

Shadle, who was convicted under the name Dillon Shadle and later legally changed her name, was born male but identifies as female, according to court records.