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Summary Judgment Reversed in Illinois Jail Suicide Suit
Loaded on June 15, 2010
published in Prison Legal News
June, 2010, page 42
The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a lower court’s grant of summary judgment to Illinois jail officials stemming from the in-custody suicide of a federal pretrial detainee.
Filed under:
Medication,
Malpractice,
Civil Procedure,
Summary Judgment,
Medical Neglect/Malpractice,
Failure to Treat (Mental Illness),
Suicides.
Location:
Illinois.
On April 13, 2005, Stanley Bell was confined at the St. Clair County Jail in Illinois. At the time he was admitted ...
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