United States Seventh Circuit

Where plaintiffs cannot demonstrate why the decedent killed himself, there can be no showing that due care by the jail staff would have prevented him from doing so, or that the staff should have foreseen that suicide would be a likely result of its being careless.

Appellate Information

• Argued 01/23/2001
• Decided 09/04/2001
• Published 09/04/2001

Judges

• POSNER, Circuit Judge., Before POSNER, EASTERBROOK, and RIPPLE, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Patricia C. Bobb,Bobb & Associates, Chicago, IL, Michael W. Rathsack (argued), Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellee., Linda A. Wawzenski (argued), Office of U.S. Attorney, Chicago, IL, for Defendant-Appellant.