United States Seventh Circuit

Summary judgment in favor of defendants in a deliberate indifference suit surrounding the suicide of a prison inmate is affirmed where there was no evidence from which a jury could infer that the officer on duty recklessly or intentionally disregarded a known risk of suicide.

Appellate Information

• Argued 12/07/2005
• Decided 09/11/2006
• Published 09/11/2006

Judges

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

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Michael P. McCready, McCready & Associates, Chicago, IL, Hugh M. Davis, Jr. (argued), Detroit, MI, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Mary E. Welsh (argued), Office of the Attorney General Civil Appeals Division, Chicago, IL, for Defendants-Appellees.