RASHO v. ELYEA

No. 14-1902.

856 F.3d 469 (2017)

Ashoor RASHO, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Willard O. ELYEA, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided March 7, 2017.

Amended May 5, 2017.

Rehearing Denied May 5, 2017.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lee N. Abrams , Marc R. Kadish , Attorneys, Mayer Brown LLP, Chicago, IL, Daniel Edward Jones , Attorney, Mayer Brown LLP, Washington, DC, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Evan Siegel , Attorney, Office of the Attorney General, Civil Appeals Division, Chicago, IL, Natalie D. Thompson , Craig L. Unrath , Attorneys, Heyl, Royster, Voelker & Allen, Peoria, IL, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before Posner and Williams, Circuit Judges, and Wood, District Judge.


Ashoor Rasho arrived at the Pontiac Correctional Center ("Pontiac"), an Illinois prison, in 2003. Rasho has a history of mental illness and, after he stopped taking his medication and began showing escalating symptoms, he was transferred into Pontiac's Mental Health Unit. He remained in the Mental Health Unit until 2006, when...

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