Wife-killing ->-bleeped-<- denied electrolysis for time being

[Shana A]

Wife-killing ->-bleeped-<- denied electrolysis for time being
By Laura Crimaldi
Thursday, November 26, 2009

http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view/20091126wife-killing_->-bleeped-<-_denied_electrolysis_for_time_being/srvc=home&position=also

Convicted wife-killer Robert "Michelle" Kosilek was rebuffed again in his battle to force state prison honchos to give him electrolysis treatments, but a federal judge left the door open to the transgender con getting taxpayer-funded hair removal procedures.

"The electrolysis issue is not necessarily dead," Judge Mark L. Wolf said in yesterday's ruling, adding he found no legal grounds to order prison officials to administer more treatments. Wolf said his ruling does not prohibit the DOC from resuming electrolysis sessions for Kosilek.

[Allamakee]

I don't understand the judge's ruling.  How can he say the issue isn't dead, when he ruled that Michelle Kosilek failed to show serious medical need?

Another news report indicates that in the judge's eyes, Kosilek was "functioning well" in prison and wasn't suicidal.  Does that mean that if she was suicidal, the judge's ruling would have been different?
http://wbztv.com/wireapnewsma/Federal.judge.denies.2.1333235.html