United States Seventh Circuit

In an inmate's negligence, malpractice, and civil rights suit against prison medical staff, summary judgment for defendants is reversed where the record contained sufficient evidence to show genuine issues of material fact on: 1) inmate's Eighth Amendment claim that prison staff were deliberately indifferent to his medical needs; and 2) whether defendants had met the standard of care, using the state-law standard as required by the Federal Tort Claims Act.

Appellate Information

• Argued 04/02/2007
• Decided 07/23/2008
• Published 07/23/2008

Judges

• ROVNER, Circuit Judge., Before RIPPLE, ROVNER, and WOOD, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Nickolai G. Levin (argued), Mayer Brown LLP, Washington, DC, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Steven Pray O'Connor, Office of The United States Attorney, Madison, WI, for Defendants-Appellees.