Legal Opinion
Marcos Gray v. Marcus Hardy
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided June 24, 2016No. 13-3413PublishedCited by 489 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WOOD, Chief Judge.
If Marcos Gray is to be believed, he has been living in disgusting conditions at Illinois’s Stateville Correctional Center, where he has been for the last 15 years. Gray sued Stateville’s warden, Marcus Hardy, in his individual capacity under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, alleging that the warden violated the Eighth Amendment by failing adequately to address (among other things) the infestation of vermin, insects, and birds in Gray’s cell. (Randy Pfister is now the warden at Stateville, but because this suit is not against Hardy in his official capacity, there is no need to substitute…
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