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Illinois Prisoner States Claim Against Prison Doctors

Loaded on May 15, 2007

Filed under: Systemic Medical Neglect, Gastrointestinal, Failure to Treat, Immunity/Liability, Eleventh Amendment Immunity, Qualified Immunity. Location: Illinois.

The United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois held
that an Illinois prisoner stated a claim under the Eighth and Fourteenth
Amendments against prison doctors, and that the doctors were immune in
their official capacities.

Jackey Bond, an Illinois state prisoner, consulted with an ear, nose, and ...

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