LEWIS v. WASHINGTON

No. 00-2017.

300 F.3d 829 (2002)

Peter LEWIS, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Odie WASHINGTON, Director, Illinois Department of Corrections, Mary Nichols, Richard Gramley, Lieutenant Shaw, and Lieutenant Jones, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided August 14, 2002.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James P. Madigan (argued), Goldberg, Kohn, Bell, Black, Rosenbloom & Moritz, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Peter Lewis, Dixon, IL, pro se.

Brett Legner (argued), Office of the Atty. Gen., Civ. App. Div., Chicago, IL, for Defendants-Appellees.

Randolph N. Stone, Mandel Legal Aid Clinic, Chicago, IL, for Amicus Curiae.

Before COFFEY, KANNE, and ROVNER, Circuit Judges.


KANNE, Circuit Judge.

Illinois prisoner Peter Lewis sued various employees of the Illinois Department of Corrections ("IDOC") under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, alleging that they failed to protect him from an attack by his cellmate and that they conspired to cover up the attack by ignoring many of his grievances and requests. The district court dismissed the case, concluding that Lewis had failed to exhaust his administrative...

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