Legal Opinion
Diggs v. Ghosh
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided March 13, 2017No. 16-1175PublishedCited by 40 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HAMILTON, Circuit Judge.
In 2014, Herbert Diggs, an Illinois prisoner, sued three doctors and the former warden of Stateville Correctional Center, asserting principally that they were deliberately indifferent to a full tear in his right knee’s anterior cruciate ligament (“ACL”). The tear had been diagnosed in 2009. When he filed suit in 2014 Diggs was (and for all we know he still is) waiting for surgery to repair the tear. The district court granted summary judgment for the defendants. We affirm in part and vacate and remand in part.
Because we are reviewing a grant of summary judgment, we…
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