8th Amendment & 14th Amendment Violation.

Byline: Derek Hawkins

7th Circuit Court of Appeals

Case Name: Darryl Turner v. Reena D. Paul, et al.

Case No.: 19-2225

Officials: WOOD, Chief Judge, and FLAUM and RIPPLE, Circuit Judges.

Focus: 8th Amendment & 14th Amendment Violation

Darryl Turner suffered a broken nose during an altercation with another inmate while in pre-trial detention at the Cook County Jail. The injury left him with pain and shortness of breath. A doctor determined that he needed surgery to treat his problems, but to Turner's great frustration, the surgery was repeatedly rescheduled and postponed. Over a year after the initial injury, he finally received the surgery following his release from custody.

Claiming that his treatment was unconstitutionally deficient under the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution, Turner sued a number of administrators and medical professionals at the Cook County Health and Hospitals System and at Cermak Health...