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JOSEPH v. BRIERTON

No. 83-2033.

739 F.2d 1244 (1984)

Hugh JOSEPH, Administrator of the Estate of Mark Joseph, a/k/a Larry Jones, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. David BRIERTON, Warden, Stateville Correctional Center, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided July 23, 1984.

As Corrected August 3, 1984.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied November 7, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Patrick T. Murphy, Ltd., Chicago, Ill., for plaintiff-appellant.

Steven F. Molo, Timothy J. Touhy, Leslie Rosen, Asst. Attys. Gen., Chicago, Ill., for defendants-appellees.

Before PELL and POSNER, Circuit Judges, and WEIGEL, Senior District Judge.

Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied November 7, 1984.

POSNER, Circuit Judge.

This is a suit for damages under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. It was brought by the administrator of the estate of a prisoner who died while in the hospital unit of Illinois' Stateville prison, against the warden and other officials of Stateville, charging that the prisoner (the plaintiff's son) suffered and died as a result of the inhumane conditions and inadequate medical care in the...

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