Legal Opinion
McGowan v. Hulick
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided July 20, 2010No. 09-2991PublishedCited by 516 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WOOD, Circuit Judge.
Michael McGowan had an upper molar extracted in January 2007 while he was imprisoned at Illinois’s Menard Correctional Center, but the extraction site did not heal and became infected. He was still suffering from complications in November 2007, when a specialist performed the second of two surgeries to close the hole left by the extraction. McGowan then brought this pro se lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and Illinois law, claiming that the dentist who performed the extraction, the prison’s dental director, the regular prison physician, and the prison warden were all…
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