HACKER v. DART

No. 21-2910.

62 F.4th 1073 (2023)

Gerald HACKER, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Thomas J. DART, Sheriff of Cook County, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided March 16, 2023.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Patrick W. Morrissey , Attorney, Thomas G. Morrissey, Ltd., Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Mia Buntic , Patrick Daniel Morris , Attorneys, Office of the Cook County State's Attorney, Chicago, IL, for Defendant-Appellee Cook County, Illinois.

Virginia Brette Bensinger , Kimberly A. Jansen , Robert Thomas Shannon , Attorneys, Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP, Chicago, IL, for Defendant-Appelees Thomas J. Dart, David Sandoval.

Before Rovner, Hamilton, and Scudder, Circuit Judges.


Gerald Hacker is almost entirely deaf. He has no hearing in his left ear and only 10% remaining in his right. While incarcerated at the Cook County Jail in 2017, he filed four grievances related to his hearing impairment, only then to sue the Sheriff of Cook County, Cook County itself, and various other officials at the Cook...

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