HUGHES v. JOLIET CORRECTIONAL CENTER

No. 89-1629.

931 F.2d 425 (1991)

Steven HUGHES, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. JOLIET CORRECTIONAL CENTER, Dr. Stanley Harper, and Jeannie Koehler, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided April 18, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Suzanne Isaacson, Jeffrey R. Tone, Sidley & Austin, Roslyn C. Lieb, Chicago Lawyers' Committee, Chicago, Ill., for plaintiff-appellant.

Deborah L. Ahlstrand, Asst. Atty. Gen., Office of Atty. Gen., Chicago, Ill., for defendants-appellees.

Before BAUER, Chief Judge, POSNER, Circuit Judge, and ESCHBACH, Senior Circuit Judge.


POSNER, Circuit Judge.

This appeal concerns the outer bounds of the Eighth Amendment's prohibition against cruel and unusual punishments, the use of summary judgment, and the standards for requesting counsel to assist indigents in civil cases. The plaintiff, Steven Hughes, is an inmate in an Illinois state prison. The defendants are the prison, and a doctor and a nurse on the prison's staff. The prison is insulated from suit...

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