Legal Opinion
Merritt v. United States
District Court, S.D. Illinois
Decided February 2, 2007No. 05-4113-JPGPublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
GILBERT, District Judge.
This matter comes before the Court on defendant Union County Hospital Dis trict’s (UCHD) motion for summary judgment (Doc. 65). The plaintiff, Kenneth D. Merritt (Merritt), has responded (Doc. 67) and UCHD has replied to that response (Doc. 68). For the following reasons UCHD’s motion for summary judgment will be GRANTED.
BACKGROUND
I. Merritt’s Claim
On Saturday, March 22, 2003, Merritt was prying a nail when a piece of it broke off and struck him in his right eye. Dr. William Ribbing (Ribbing), an emergency room physician at Union County Hospital…
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