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WOODWARD v. CORRECTIONAL MEDICAL SERVICES

No. 03-3147.

368 F.3d 917 (2004)

Harriett G. WOODWARD, Special Administrator of the Estate of Justin Farver, deceased, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. CORRECTIONAL MEDICAL SERVICES OF ILLINOIS, INC., Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided May 17, 2004.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Peter R. Coladarci (Argued), Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Andrew R. McGaan (Argued), Kirkland & Ellis, Chicago, IL, for Defendant-Appellant.

Before POSNER, RIPPLE, and EVANS, Circuit Judges.

TERENCE T. EVANS, Circuit Judge.

After 23-year-old Justin Farver hanged himself with a bed sheet while a pretrial detainee at the Lake County (Illinois) jail, Harriett Woodward, his grandmother and the special administrator of his estate, sued Correctional Medical Services ("CMS," a private contractor hired by Lake County to provide medical and mental health services at its jail), CMS agents — nurse Karen Dean, social worker Joel Mollner, and Dr. Michael Fernando...

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