Legal Opinion
Jaclyn Currie v. Jogendra Chhabra
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 20, 2013No. 12-2709PublishedCited by 102 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WOOD, Circuit Judge.
Phillip Okoro spent the last 69 days' of his short life—which ended two days before Christmas, on December 23, 2008, at age 23—in a Williamson County, Illinois jail cell. An autopsy determined that his death resulted from diabetic ketoacidosis, a life-threatening condition associated with untreated Type I diabetes. Jaclyn Currie, Okoro’s sister and the administrator of his estate, brought suit in federal court, alleging violations of Okoro’s federal constitutional rights and state law. Two of the named defendants, Dr. Jogendra Chhabra and Nurse Marilyn Ann Reynolds, were…
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