Legal Opinion
Knight v. Wiseman
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided December 22, 2009No. 09-1435PublishedCited by 467 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FLAUM, Circuit Judge.
Rick Knight, plaintiff-appellant, appeals a grant of summary judgment in favor of defendants-appellees Kenneth Wiseman and Mark Wiedau. Knight is a prisoner at Vandalia Correctional Center in Vandalia, Illinois, where Wiseman and Wiedau worked as correctional officers. In a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 claim, Knight alleged that the appellees violated his Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment rights by requiring him to work despite a prior shoulder injury and delaying medical treatment following Knight’s subsequent re-injury. The district court granted summary judgment in favor of the…
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