Legal Opinion
Hurst v. Hantke
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided February 10, 2011No. 10-2745PublishedCited by 72 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
The plaintiff, an inmate in an Illinois state prison, brought suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 claiming that the prison’s medical staff had been deliberately indifferent to his need for medical care for a stroke, and by that deliberate indifference had inflicted cruel and unusual punishment on him, in violation of his federal constitutional rights. The district court granted summary judgment for the defendants on the ground that the plaintiff had failed to exhaust his internal prison remedies, as required by the Prison Litigation Reform Act. See 42 U.S.C. § 1997e(a).
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