MAYS v. DART

No. 20-1792.

974 F.3d 810 (2020)

Anthony MAYS, individually and on behalf of a class of similarly situated persons, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Thomas J. DART, Sheriff of Cook County, Illinois, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided September 8, 2020.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Easha Anand , Attorney, RODERICK & SOLANGE MACARTHUR JUSTICE CENTER, San Francisco, CA, Steven Edwards Art , Attorney, Sarah Grady , Attorney, Jon C. Loevy , Attorney, LOEVY & LOEVY, Locke E. Bowman, III , Attorney, RODERICK & SOLANGE MACARTHUR JUSTICE CENTER, Alexa Van Brunt , Attorney, MACARTHUR JUSTICE CENTER, Chicago, IL, Charles Gerstein , Attorney, Alec Karakatsanis , Attorney, CIVIL RIGHTS CORPS, Washington, DC, for Plaintiffs-Appellees.

Gretchen Harris Sperry , Attorney, Lari A. Dierks , Attorney, James M. Lydon , Attorney, Robert Thomas Shannon , Attorney, Adam R. Vaught , Attorney, HINSHAW & CULBERTSON LLP, Chicago, IL, for Defendant-Appellant.

Before Sykes, Chief Judge, and Brennan and St. Eve, Circuit Judges.


Plaintiffs—a class of detainees at the Cook County Jail—brought this action against Cook County Sheriff Thomas Dart after the Jail reported an outbreak of COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus that has sparked a global pandemic. Plaintiffs contend that the Sheriff has violated their Fourteenth...

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