United States Seventh Circuit

Failing to treat prisoner's HIV/AIDS status not an Eighth Amendment violation where prisoner refused to take HIV test, and where refusal to provide AIDS medication, absent confirmatory test, was a decision involving medical judgment that did not amount to a constitutional violation.

Appellate Information

• Argued 12/10/1999
• Decided 11/30/2000
• Published 11/30/2000

Judges

• ILANA DIAMOND ROVNER, Circuit Judge., Before EASTERBROOK, ROVNER and DIANE P. WOOD, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• R. Edward Wilhoite, Jr. (argued), Lerner & Wilhoite, Chicago, IL, for plaintiffs-appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Michael P. Doyle (argued), Office of the Attorney General, Civil Appeals Division, Chicago, IL, for defendants-appellees.