Legal Opinion
Simeon Palay v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided November 12, 2003No. 01-1112PublishedCited by 178 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ILANA DIAMOND ROVNER, Circuit Judge.
Simeon Palay, a federal prisoner, sustained injuries when a fight broke out among fellow inmates belonging to rival gangs at the Metropolitan Community Correctional Center in Chicago (“MCC”), where he was detained pending trial on criminal charges. Palay filed suit against the United States pursuant to the Federal Tort Claims Act, 28 U.S.C. § 1346 (“FTCA”), asserting that MCC officials had been negligent in the following respects: they improperly reassigned him from a unit for pretrial detainees like himself to a “holdover” unit housing convicted prisoners…
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