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MIRANDA v. COUNTY OF LAKE

No. 17-1603.

900 F.3d 335 (2018)

Alfredo MIRANDA, Administrator of Estate of Lyvita Gomes, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. COUNTY OF LAKE, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided August 10, 2018.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Janine L. Hoft , Attorney, Shubra Ohri , Attorney, Janis M. Susler , Attorney, People's Law Office, Chicago, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Jeffrey N. Given , Attorney, Caroline P. Golden , Attorney, James G. Sotos , Attorney, Sotos Law Firm, P.C., for Defendants-Appellees.

David A. Brueggen , Attorney, Sotos Law Firm, P.C., Itasca, Scott L. Howie , Attorney, Pretzel & Stouffer, Chartered, Chicago, Robert P. Vogt , Attorney, Vogt & O'Kane, Chicago, for Defendants-Appellees Rozel Elazegui, Hargurmukh Singh.

David Michael Shapiro , Attorney, Macarthur Justice Center, Chicago, Amy Fetbig , Attorney, ACLU National Prison Project, Washington, Benjamin S. Wolf , Attorney, Roger Baldwin Foundation of ACLU, INC., Chicago, for Amicus Curiae.

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

In the fall of 2011, Lyvita Gomes failed to show up for jury duty. This minor infraction triggered a series of events that led to her untimely death in the early days of 2012. She wound up in the county jail, where she refused to eat and drink. The medical providers who worked at the Jail did little other than monitoring as she...

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