United States Seventh Circuit

Summary judgment for defendants in an action alleging failure to provide adequate medical assistance is reversed where plaintiff produced enough evidence from which a reasonable jury could conclude that Cook County had a widespread custom or practice of failing to provide adequate medical assistance and that certain individual defendants were deliberately indifferent to the deceased plaintiff's medical needs. The judgment is affirmed as to all other defendants.

Appellate Information

• Argued 11/29/2005
• Decided 06/28/2006
• Published 06/28/2006

Judges

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

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Thomas G. Morrissey (argued), Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Donald J. Pechous (argued), Office of the Cook County State's Attorney, Lynn A. Ellenberger (argued), John F. Kennedy, Shefsky & Froelich, Chicago, IL, for Defendants-Appellees.