United States Seventh Circuit

Reversed. Defendant prison guards were entitled to qualified immunity in a case claiming cruel and unusual punishment where a PTSD-suffering prisoner asked guards not to stand behind him but they continued to do so. It did not violate clearly established constitutional law for non-medical staff to refuse to provide what amounts to medical accommodation that hadn't been ordered by the medical staff.

Appellate Information

• Published 2019/08/01

Judges

• Hamilton

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

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