Legal Opinion
Norman Calhoun v. Kenneth Ramsey, Sheriff of Kane County, and Correctional Medical Services, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided May 17, 2005No. 03-3036PublishedCited by 373 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WOOD, Circuit Judge.
Norman Calhoun brought this action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against Kenneth Ramsey, the Sheriff of Kane County, and Correctional Medical Services, Inc. (CMS), a private company that contracted with the County to provide medical care to inmates incarcerated in the county jail, complaining about injuries he sustained at the jail. He claimed that his injuries resulted from the fact that the jail’s medical policy made no provision for advance verification of a detainee’s medications. This omission, he argued, amounted to deliberate indifference to his medical needs in violation…
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