United States Seventh Circuit

Where the plaintiff alleges that a prison inmate told the guards that he planned to commit suicide and then covered the window of his cell, the allegation is sufficient to show the notice required to survive dismissal of an Eighth Amendment action.

Appellate Information

• Argued 02/13/2001
• Decided 09/21/2001
• Published 09/21/2001

Judges

• KANNE, Circuit Judge., Before MANION, KANNE, and EVANS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Robert Bennett, Minneapolis, MN, L. Stanton Dotson, Mattoon, IL, Joe Margulies (argued), Margulies & Richman, Minneapolis, MN, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• James E. Doyle, Stanley W. Davis (argued), Office of the Atty. Gen., Wisconsin Dept. of Justice, Madison, WI, for Defendants-Appellees.