Newell v. Ngu

ORDER

Jan Newell, a former inmate at Dixon Correctional Center, is a paraplegic and requires the use of a catheter. He brought this action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 claiming that Dr. Lawrence Ngu, a past medical director at Dixon, was deliberately indifferent to his recurring urinary tract infections, which resulted from the failure to timely and properly replace his catheter. The district court entered summary judgment for Dr. Ngu, reasoning that a jury could not find from the evidence that, he was responsible for changing Newell’s catheter — that was the nurses’ job — or that he knew that…