Legal Opinion
Calvin Thomas v. State of Illinois
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided September 27, 2012No. 12-2095PublishedCited by 310 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
The plaintiff brought suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 complaining of having been subjected to cruel and unusual punishments while an inmate of an Illinois state prison. The defendants are the state and the state agency that operates the prisons. The suit alleged that the plaintiffs cell had been infested with mice and cockroaches and that a window pane was missing and as a result rain came into his cell through the window, and that a warden or assistant warden had done a “walk through” and seen that the pane was missing yet nothing had been done to replace it.
The district…
2Cases cited30 opinions
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- Eddie Williams v. J.H. Griffin, Superintendent J.C. Harris, Jr., Area Administrator Aaron J. Johnson, Secretary of CorrectionsCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1991
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3Cited by310 opinions
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