STEWART v. WEXFORD HEALTH SOURCES, INC.

No. 19-2994.

14 F.4th 757 (2021)

LaVertis STEWART, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. WEXFORD HEALTH SOURCES, INC., et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided October 1, 2021.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jeffrey M. Heckendorn , Rachel Allison Remke , Frederick J. Sperling , Attorneys, Schiff Hardin LLP, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Lynsey Anne Stewart , Julie Ann Teuscher , Attorneys, Cassiday Schade LLP, Chicago, IL, Stephen J. Gorski , Attorney, Cassiday Schade LLP, Rockford, IL, for Defendants-Appellees Wexford Health Sources, Inc., Arthur Funk, Kenneth Blickenstaff.

Chaya M. Citrin , Attorney, Office of the Attorney General, Civil Appeals Division, Chicago, IL, for Defendant-Appellee Wayne Steele.

Before Sykes, Chief Judge, and Flaum and Rovner, Circuit Judges.


LaVertis Stewart, an inmate at Dixon Correctional Center, sued the assistant warden, two doctors, and a medical corporation under the Eighth Amendment, claiming that they were deliberately indifferent to his serious medical needs by refusing to grant him an exemption to wearing a restrictive security device, a black box, when...

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