Legal Opinion
Damien Terry v. Mark Spencer
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided April 27, 2018No. 17-2331PublishedCited by 88 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Sykes, Circuit Judge.
Damien Terry, an Illinois prisoner proceeding pro se, sued prison officials and corrections administrators under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 claiming that they were deliberately indifferent to a painful tumor on his neck and prevented him from timely filing suit on that claim. A district judge screened the case, see 28 U.S.C. § 1915A, held a "merit-review hearing," see Hughes v. Farris , 809 F.3d 330 , 334-35 (7th Cir. 2015), and dismissed the complaint, ruling that it impermissibly joined two unrelated sets of claims against different defendants. The judge gave Terry 30 days to…
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