DIGGS v. GHOSH

No. 16-1175.

850 F.3d 905 (2017)

Herbert DIGGS, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Parthasarathi GHOSH, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided March 13, 2017.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Herbert Diggs, Pro Se.

Julie Ann Teuscher , Attorney, Matthew H. Weller , Cassiday Schade LLP, Chicago, IL, for Defendants-Appellees Parthasarathi Ghosh, Saleh Obaisi, and Imhotep Carter.

Mary Ellen Welsh , Attorney, Office of the Attorney General, Civil Appeals Division, Chicago, IL, for Defendants-Appellees Marcus Hardy and Randy Pfister.

Before Wood, Chief Judge, and Posner and Hamilton, Circuit Judges.


In 2014, Herbert Diggs, an Illinois prisoner, sued three doctors and the former warden of Stateville Correctional Center, asserting principally that they were deliberately indifferent to a full tear in his right knee's anterior cruciate ligament ("ACL"). The tear had been diagnosed in 2009. When he filed suit in 2014 Diggs...

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