United States Seventh Circuit

Corrections department employees are not estopped from raising an exhaustion of remedies defense to a prisoner's suit alleging failure to protect him from a cellmate's attack. Claim alleging conspiracy to cover up the attack is remanded for proper consideration.

Appellate Information

• Argued 07/10/2002
• Decided 08/14/2002
• Published 08/14/2002

Judges

• KANNE, Circuit Judge., Before COFFEY, KANNE, and ROVNER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• James P. Madigan (argued), Goldberg, Kohn, Bell, Black, Rosenbloom & Moritz, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellant., Peter Lewis, Dixon, IL, pro se., Randolph N. Stone, Mandel Legal Aid Clinic, Chicago, IL, for Amicus Curiae.


• For Appellees:
  
• Brett Legner (argued), Office of the Atty. Gen., Civ. App. Div., Chicago, IL, for Defendants-Appellees.