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FORBES v. EDGAR

No. 95-3134.

112 F.3d 262 (1997)

Lisa FORBES, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Jim EDGAR, Howard A. Peters III, Harry Shuman, Gwendolyn V. Thornton, Steven J. Punis, Donna Klein-Acosta, Patricia A. Dunbar, and Monica A. Becker, all individually, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided April 18, 1997.

Rehearing and Suggestion for Rehearing Denied June 4, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James Chapman, Chicago, IL (argued), for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Rita Novak, Laura Wonder (argued), Office of the Attorney General, Chicago, IL, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before RIPPLE, MeMANION, and EVANS, Circuit Judges.

Rehearing and Suggestion for Rehearing En Banc Denied June 4, 1997.

TERENCE T. EVANS, Circuit Judge.

When Lisa Forbes entered the Dwight Correctional Center as a prisoner in 1987 her Mantoux skin test for tuberculosis was negative. Tests for several years thereafter were also negative. A test administered in August 1992, however, was positive. Drawing an obvious conclusion, Forbes contends that she came in contact with the tubercle bacilli at Dwight. Her next...

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