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No Qualified Immunity When Denying Pain Medication
Loaded on July 15, 2003
published in Prison Legal News
July, 2003, page 31
The Seventh Circuit US Court of Appeals affirmed summary judgment against an Illinois state prisoner's 42 USC § 1983 principal complaint alleging negligent medical treatment, but denied the defendants' qualified immunity defense to the included claim regarding denial of pain medications. John Walker, incarcerated at Western Illinois Correctional Center, suffered ...
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