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LEMONS v. SKIDMORE

No. 90-2679.

985 F.2d 354 (1993)

Edward LEMONS, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Captain Marvin SKIDMORE, Lieutenant Jack Durham, and Correctional Officer Robert Gaither, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided February 9, 1993.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Barry Levenstam, Jerold S. Solovy, Cathryn E. Albrecht (argued), Jenner & Block, Chicago, IL, for plaintiff-appellant.

Robert G. Toews, Office of the Atty. Gen., Chicago, IL (argued), for defendants-appellees.

Before CUDAHY and EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judges, and WILL, Senior District Judge.

WILL, Senior District Judge.

Edward Lemons was a prisoner in the Segregation Unit at the Pontiac Correctional Center in 1986 (he is currently incarcerated elsewhere). He filed a § 1983 complaint pro se in June 1986 charging that in January 1986 the defendants had attacked and beaten him so severely that they violated his Eighth Amendment rights. The events took place during a shakedown, in which prisoners are handcuffed and removed from their cells while...

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