Deliberate Indifference

By: Derek Hawkins//March 15, 2017//

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7^th Circuit court of Appeals

Case Name: Herbert Diggs v. Parthasarathi Ghosh, et al

Case No.: 16-1175

Officials: WOOD,Chief Judge, and POSNER and HAMILTON, Circuit Judges.

Focus: Deliberate Indifference

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 was (and for all we know he still is) waiting for surgery to repair the tear. The district court granted summary judgment for the defendants. We affirm in part and vacate and remand in part.

Affirmed in Part

Vacated and remanded in part

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Attorney Derek A. Hawkins is the managing partner at Hawkins Law Offices LLC, where he heads up the firm’s startup law practice. He specializes in business formation, corporate governance, intellectual property protection, private equity and venture capital funding and mergers & acquisitions. Check out the website at www.hawkins-lawoffices.com or contact them at 262-737-8825.

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