Legal Opinion
Wrightsell v. Cook County, Ill.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided March 31, 2010No. 09-2634PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
Lance Wrightsell, a former inmate of the Cook County Jail, brought suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the County (and its sheriff, but we can disregard the claim against him), charging that its failure to make more than a single dentist available to the jail’s 10,000 inmates was cruel and unusual punishment and thus violated the Eighth Amendment. He asked the district court to certify a class consisting of “all persons who, while confined at Cook County Jail on and after Sept. 23, 2006, made a request for treatment of dental pain and were not examined by a dentist…
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