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Illinois Court Allows Medical Indifference Case to Proceed to Trial, Denies Summary Judgment to Prison Officials for Prisoner's Tooth Pain
Loaded on Aug. 31, 2017
by Lonnie Burton
by Lonnie Burton
In a Memorandum and Order dated November 7, 2016, U.S. Magistrate Judge Stephen C. Williams of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois, granted in part and denied in part summary judgment to a prison medical provider for alleged medical indifference for …
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