United States Seventh Circuit

Dismissal of plaintiff-inmate's claim, alleging that defendant-prison guards failed to protect, is reversed where defendants were deliberately indifferent when they allowed an individual, with known violent propensities, unsupervised access into a room occupied by plaintiff.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/16/2005
• Published 02/16/2005

Judges

• WILLIAMS, Circuit Judge., Before COFFEY, WILLIAMS, and SYKES, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Erik F. Dyhrkopp, Wonah Kim (argued), Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Erik G. Light (argued), Office of the Attorney General, Chicago, IL, for Defendants-Appellees Timothy Budz, Robert E. Glotz, Aide Tyler, Aide Clark, and Aide Smith., Stephen R. Swofford, James Constantine Vlahakis (argued), Hinshaw & Culbertson, Chicago, IL, for Defendant-Appellee Raymond Wood.