United States Seventh Circuit

Police officers who knew prisoner was diabetic and needed regular shots of insulin to avoid potentially fatal injury were not entitled to qualified immunity when they refused to give prisoner his shot.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/27/2001
• Published 11/27/2001

Judges

• POSNER, Circuit Judge., Before FLAUM, Chief Judge, and POSNER and RIPPLE, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Steven J. Seidman, Chicago, IL, Glenn W. Fischer (argeud), Seidman Law Offices, for Plaintiff-Appellee., Elizabeth A. Knight (argued), Knight, Hoppe, Kurnik & Knight, Des Plaines, IL, for Defendant-Appellant.