Legal Opinion
Jackson v. Pollion
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided October 28, 2013No. 12-2682PublishedCited by 169 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
The plaintiff, an inmate of an Illinois prison, has sued, under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 — the ubiquitous federal constitutional tort statute — a nurse practitioner and a correctional counselor both of whom work at the prison. He accuses them of having been deliberately indifferent to his serious medical condition — hypertension (high blood pressure) — for which he was not receiving his prescribed medication. They thus were guilty, he charges, of inflicting cruel and unusual punishment on him. The district judge granted summary judgment in favor of the defendants and dismissed…
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- David Williams v. James Liefer, Brent Hoffman, and James MasseyCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2007
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