Judge Sue Myerscough of the Central District of Illinois granted summary judgment in favor of Kankakee County jail administrators, correctional staff and nursing staff in Lash v. Bukowski, et al., 16-CV-2138 (C.D. Ill. Oct. 26, 2017). Plaintiff, a fifty-four (54) year old diabetic inmate, sued the Sheriff and various staff members of the Jerome Combs…
Read MoreJudge Brian R. McKillip in DuPage County granted summary judgment in favor of the Village of Itasca in Gentile v. Village of Itasca, Case No. 2016 L 157 (DuPage Co. Cir. Ct. August 11, 2017). Plaintiff, an 80-year old woman, walked her dog down a sidewalk near her home in Itasca in April 2015. She…
Read MoreJudge James Shadid of the U.S. District Court of Central Illinois granted summary judgment in favor of the county jail medical staff at Jerome Combs Detention Center (“JCDC”) in Taylor v. Huffines, et al., No. 16-cv-2100. Inmate Travis Taylor claimed that his constitutional rights were violated when the staff acted with deliberate indifference to his…
Read MoreOn August 22, 2017, the Seventh Circuit reiterated the long-standing doctrine that qualified immunity cannot be decided at a “high level of generality,” requiring the law to have been clearly established in sufficiently similar circumstances to those facing an officer before finding officers liable for damages under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. In Green v. Newport,…
Read MoreDistrict Court Judge Frederick Kapala granted summary judgment in favor of the jail staff on plaintiff’s Section 1983 claims arising out of the death of a jail inmate in McCann v. Ogle County, et al., No. 11 C 50125 (N.D. Ill. Sept. 18, 2017). Patrick McCann died of respiratory depression caused by an overdose of…
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