Legal Opinion
Heard v. Sheahan
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided June 13, 2001No. 00-2908PublishedCited by 246 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
This prisoner’s civil rights suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 charges the defendant prison officials with inflicting cruel and unusual punishment on the plaintiff by denying him medical care for his hernia. The district court held the suit barred by the two-year statute of limitations applicable to such suits.
The plaintiff had been held in the Cook County jail, awaiting trial, from January 1994 until sometime after June 6, 1996, and he filed the suit on June 5, 1998. It was during his confinement in the jail, months before his release, that he developed a prominent bulge in…
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