United States Seventh Circuit

In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 suit claiming that plaintiff was beaten by other inmates and that his safety and medical needs were neglected by jail staff while plaintiff was a pretrial detainee, summary judgment for defendants is affirmed in part and reversed and remanded in part where: 1) dismissal of defendant-city did not effectuate the dismissal of defendants-county employees; 2) plaintiff failed to present evidence to support his claims against defendants in their official capacity demonstrating that defendants had acted pursuant to an official custom or policy; 3) with respect to all but one of his claims of deliberate indifference to safety needs, plaintiff did not demonstrate that individual defendants knew of risks to plaintiff's safety posed by other inmates; and 4) genuine issues of material fact existed as to whether individual defendants were deliberately indifferent to plaintiff's medical needs, and as to whether defendants could be held liable on a state-law negligence claim.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/18/2008
• Published 08/18/2008

Judges

• KANNE, Circuit Judge., Before EASTERBROOK, Chief Judge, and KANNE and ROVNER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Stephen Sanders (argued), Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Scott C. Hollingsworth, Anne E. Brant (argued), Office of the Corporation Counsel, Indianapolis, IN, for Defendants-Appellees.