Legal Opinion
Cunningham v. Southlake Center for Mental Health, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided January 25, 1991No. 89-3174PublishedCited by 31 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CUDAHY, Circuit Judge.
Elliott Cunningham was hired by South-lake Center for Mental Health, Inc. (South-lake), in 1985 to work as a counselor in the Lake County Jail. Southlake had contracted to provide mental health services for the jail as the result of a consent decree in an unrelated case. By the contract’s terms, Southlake retained the exclusive authority to direct, supervise, control and manage its personnel working in the jail. In early 1986, a problem of food theft by non-inmates prompted Jeff Miller, warden of the jail, to circulate a notice warning that such *107behavior must cease.…
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