Legal Opinion
Dan Richards v. Michael Mitcheff
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 9, 2012No. 11-3227PublishedCited by 474 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EASTERBROOK, Chief Judge.
Danny Richards underwent three surgeries necessitated by ulcerative colitis. His colon has been removed and an ileoanal pouch constructed. Richards, a prisoner of Indiana, had complained since January 2008 about abdominal pain and blood in his stool; physicians in the prison system assured him that he was fine, but they were wrong. In October 2008 they sent him to a hospital, where specialists diagnosed ulcerative colitis. By then it was too late to do anything but excise the colon and attempt some palliation.
Richards filed this suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in December…
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