United States Seventh Circuit

Continuing violation doctrine applies to claims against prison officials alleging Eighth Amendment violations, cruel and unusual punishment, and deliberate indifference to medical needs, so that the claim never accrues while the refusal to administer medical treatment is ongoing.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/13/2001
• Published 06/13/2001

Judges

• POSNER, Circuit Judge., Before FAIRCHILD, BAUER, and POSNER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Delbert Heard, Pontiac, IL, pro se.


• For Appellees:
  
• Robert F. Cleary (submitted), Office of the State's Atty. of Cook County, Chicago, IL, for Defendant-Appellee.