Heard v. Sheahan

U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit · Decided 2001-06-13

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POSNER, Circuit Judge. This prisoner’s civil rights suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 charges the defendant prison officials with inflicting cruel and unusual punishment on the plaintiff by denying him medical care for his hernia. The district court held the suit barred by the two-year statute of limitations applicable to such suits. The plaintiff had been held in the Cook…

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