United States Seventh Circuit

Defendant-prisoner's suit, claiming that defendant-correctional facility violated the Eighth Amendment by failing to correct a "protrusive lip" on the prison softball field that caused him injury, is dismissed where the failure to alert is not an unnecessary and wanton infliction of pain.

Appellate Information

• Argued 07/06/2004
• Decided 09/29/2004
• Published 09/29/2004

Judges

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

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Dennis W. Christopher, Louisville, KY, for Plaintiff-Appellant., Karen Celestino Horseman, Indianapolis, IN, Pro Se Amicus Curiae.


• For Appellees:
  
• Steve Carter, Office of the Attorney General, Karen Celestino Horseman, Indianapolis, IN, for Defendants-Appellees.