Legal Opinion
James Curtis v. Percy Timberlake and Charles Jefferson
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided January 27, 2006No. 05-1239PublishedCited by 61 opinions
1Per curiam
James Curtis brought suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 claiming as relevant here that guards Percy Timberlake and Charles Jefferson violated his right to due process by assaulting him without provocation while he was a pretrial detainee at the Cook County jail in Chicago. A magistrate judge, presiding by consent, granted summary judgment for the guards, reasoning that Curtis filed his complaint without first exhausting his administrative remedies as required by 42 U.S.C. § 1997e(a). We vacate and remand.
Curtis alleged in his complaint that Tim-berlake and Jefferson mistakenly concluded that he…
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