Legal Opinion
Ralphfield Hudson v. Irwin M. McHugh Director, Michael Lew Center, Mary Lafever, Michael Lew Center, and Howard Erickson, Rock County Sheriff
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided July 8, 1998No. 97-1437PublishedCited by 124 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TERENCE T. EVANS, Circuit Judge.
After being transferred from a halfway house to a county jail, Ralphfield Hudson went without Dilantin, his epilepsy medicine, for 11 days and suffered a seizure. Afterward he filed a pro se § 1983 suit, claiming that the halfway house administrators and several jail officials violated his rights under the Eighth Amendment. The district court, after entering several nonappealable orders, granted summary judgment for the defendants and Hudson appeals. We review the district court’s summary judgment decision de novo, accepting as true all facts asserted by Mr.…
2Cases cited8 opinions
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- Gutierrez v. PetersCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1997
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