Legal Opinion
David Williams v. James Liefer, Brent Hoffman, and James Massey
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided July 5, 2007No. 06-3493PublishedCited by 257 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FLAUM, Circuit Judge.
David Williams sued several employees of the Illinois Department of Corrections under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, claiming that they were deliberately indifferent to his medical needs in violation of the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments. On July 5, 2006, a jury returned a verdict in favor of Williams and awarded him $4,500 in compensatory damages. The defendants appeal, claiming that they were entitled to judgment as a matter of law. For the following reasons, we affirm the jury’s verdict.
I. Background 1
David Williams, an obese inmate who suffers from high blood pressure, was…
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