Legal Opinion
Curtis Shields v. Thomas Dart
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided December 14, 2011No. 11-2336PublishedCited by 61 opinions
1Per curiam
Curtis Shields, an Illinois prisoner, claims in this action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 that Illinois prison officials were deliberately indifferent in failing to protect him from an attack by other detainees at the Cook County Jail. The district court granted the defendants’ motion for summary judgment because Shields did not demonstrate that the defendants acted unreasonably or knew of a substantial risk of serious harm. We affirm.
This case stems from Shields’ experiences as a pretrial detainee in a maximum security area at Cook County Jail in 2009. In response to concerns Shields had expressed…
2Cases cited11 opinions
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- David Brown v. Timothy BudzCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2005
- Bishop v. HackelCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 2011
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