Legal Opinion
Reshard Jackson v. Illinois Medi-Car, Incorporated and Matthew Howard
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 7, 2002No. 01-4162PublishedCited by 203 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RIPPLE, Circuit Judge.
At the direction of the Chicago Police Department (“CPD”), Illinois Medi-Car (“Medi-Car”), a private corporation, transported Reshard Jackson to a South Side police station on October 5, 1998. After reaching the facility, Mr. Jackson collapsed from an overdose of medication. Mr. Jackson later filed this § 1983 action against Medi-Car and one of its drivers, Matthew Howard. He alleged that Medi-Car and Mr. Howard had denied him, a pretrial detainee, adequate medical care in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States. Medí-Car and Mr.…
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