BRYANT v. MADIGAN

No. 95-2349.

91 F.3d 994 (1996)

Ronald G. BRYANT, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. David MADIGAN, Nancy Griffin, and Dorothy Mulcahey, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

August 1, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ronald G. Bryant, Urbana, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Lorna K. Geiler, Meyer, Capel, Hirschfeld, Muncy, Jahn & Aldeen, Champaign, IL, James C. Dedman, Office of the State's Attorney of Champaign County, Urbana, IL, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before POSNER, Chief Judge, and MANION and KANNE, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM.

Bryant, an Illinois state prisoner, brought this damages suit against his keepers, complaining that they had refused his request for guardrails for his bed and that as a result he had broken his leg when a severe leg spasm caused him to fall out of bed. (Bryant is a paraplegic, and leg spasms are a symptom of his condition.) He also complained that after the operation to fix his leg he was denied pain medication. He alleged violations of both the Eighth...

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