Legal Opinion
David Brown v. Timothy Budz
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided February 16, 2005No. 03-1997PublishedCited by 772 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WILLIAMS, Circuit Judge.
David Brown, a resident of the Illinois Department of Human Services’ Sexually Violent Persons and Detention Facility (Facility) was severely beaten several times by a fellow resident. Brown alleged that Facility employees failed to protect him in violation of his due process rights by allowing that fellow resident with allegedly violent propensities to roam Facility common areas unsupervised. He also alleged that several Facility employees violated his right to equal protection by intentionally treating him and other Caucasian residents differently from similarly…
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