BRYANT v. MADIGAN

No. 95-2349.

84 F.3d 246 (1996)

Ronald G. BRYANT, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. David MADIGAN, Nancy Griffin, and Dorothy Mulcahey, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided May 17, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ronald G. Bryant (submitted), Urbana, IL, pro se.

Lorna K. Geiler, Meyer, Capel, Hirschfeld, Muncy, Jahn & Aldeen, Champaign, IL, James C. Dedman, Office of the State's Attorney of Champaign County, Urbana, IL, for David Madigan, Nancy Griffin, Dorothy Mulcahey.

Before POSNER, Chief Judge, and MANION and KANNE, Circuit Judges.


POSNER, Chief Judge.

Bryant, an Illinois state prisoner, brought this damages suit against his keepers, complaining that they had refused his request for guardrails for his bed and that as a result he had broken his leg when a severe leg spasm caused him to fall out of bed. (Bryant is a paraplegic, and leg spasms are a symptom of his condition.) He also complains that after the operation to fix his leg he was denied pain medication. He claims that the defendants'...

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