Legal Opinion
Gay v. Chandra
District Court, S.D. Illinois
Decided August 28, 2009No. Case 05-CV-0150-MJR-DGWPublished
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
REAGAN, District Judge.
A. Introduction
On March 1, 2005, Plaintiff Anthony Gay filed a two-count complaint (Doc. 1) against Dr. Rakesh Chandra, a psychiatrist who treated him at the Tamms Correctional Center in 2004 (“Tamms”). Gay’s first claim is that the conditions of confinement to which Dr. Chandra subjected him from March 14, 2004 through July 11, 2004 violated the Eighth Amendment. Gay alleges that the temperatures in his cell were so low as to pose a substantial risk of harm. He also alleges that he was physically restrained without food or clothing for long periods…
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