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SMENTEK v. DART

No. 11-3261.

683 F.3d 373 (2012)

John SMENTEK, et al., individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Thomas J. DART, Sheriff of Cook County, and Cook County, Illinois, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided June 19, 2012.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kenneth N. Flaxman (submitted), Attorney, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiffs-Appellees.

Michael Lambert Gallagher , Attorney, Office of the Cook County State's Attorney, Chicago, IL, for Defendants-Appellants.

Before POSNER, WOOD, and TINDER, Circuit Judges.

POSNER, Circuit Judge.

John Smentek and others, former inmates of Cook County Jail, are plaintiffs in this class action suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the County and its sheriff. The suit, filed in the federal district court in Chicago, charges that the defendants' failure to make more than a single dentist available to the jail's 10,000 inmates constitutes the imposition of cruel and unusual punishment and thus violates both the Eighth Amendment and the...

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