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WRIGHTSELL v. COOK COUNTY, ILL.

No. 09-2634.

599 F.3d 781 (2010)

Lance WRIGHTSELL, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS, and Sheriff of Cook County, Defendants-Appellees. John Smentek, Petitioner for Leave to Intervene.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided March 31, 2010.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kenneth N. Flaxman (submitted), Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Michael L. Gallagher (submitted), Office of the Cook County State's Attorney, Chicago, IL, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before POSNER, WOOD, and TINDER, Circuit Judges.

POSNER, Circuit Judge.

Lance Wrightsell, a former inmate of the Cook County Jail, brought suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the County (and its sheriff, but we can disregard the claim against him), charging that its failure to make more than a single dentist available to the jail's 10,000 inmates was cruel and unusual punishment and thus violated the Eighth Amendment. He asked the district court to certify a class consisting of "all persons who, while confined...

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