HALEY v. GROSS

No. 95-1130.

86 F.3d 630 (1996)

Arzel HALEY, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Boniface GROSS, Lieutenant McKee, and Michael Ellis, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided May 29, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael N. Bledsoe (argued), Michael N. Bledsoe & Associates, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Michael A. Wulf, Alix E. Armstead, Office of Atty. Gen., Springfield, IL, Jerald S. Post (argued), Office of Atty. Gen., Civ. Appeals Div., Chicago, IL, for Defendants-Appellants.

Before CUMMINGS, CUDAHY, and FLAUM, Circuit Judges.


FLAUM, Circuit Judge.

On May 16, 1994, a jury found that Superintendent Boniface Gross, Lieutenant Scott McKee, and Sergeant Michael Ellis1 ("defendants") were deliberately indifferent to the safety of Arzel Haley while he was an inmate at the Menard Correctional Facility, in violation of the Eighth Amendment and 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The jury found that the deliberate indifference of these defendants was a proximate cause of Haley's...

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