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BASS BY LEWIS v. WALLENSTEIN

Nos. 83-2392, 83-2404.

769 F.2d 1173 (1985)

Johnny Lee BASS, by Mary LEWIS, Administrator of his Estate, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Arthur WALLENSTEIN, Assistant Warden of Stateville Correctional Center, William Such, Medical Unit Administrator of Stateville Correctional Center, and First National Bank of Joliet, Executor of the Estate of Dr. Charles Hoffman, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided July 30, 1985.

Rehearing Denied August 22, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard G. French, French, Rogers, Kezelis & Kominiarek, Chicago, Ill., for plaintiff-appellee.

Donald T. Bertucci, Chicago, Ill., for defendants-appellants.

Before HARLINGTON WOOD, Jr. and ESCHBACH, Circuit Judges, and SWYGERT, Senior Circuit Judge.

HARLINGTON WOOD, Jr. Circuit Judge.

In this section 1983 action claiming deprivations of decedent Johnny Lee Bass' eighth amendment right to be free from cruel and unusual punishment and his fourteenth amendment right not to be deprived of life without due process of law, the jury returned a verdict in favor of the administrator of Bass' estate in the amount of $250,000. The defendants found to be liable,1 Wallenstein, Assistant Warden...

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