Calhoun v. Ramsey.

• Position: Medical care - Brief Article

U.S. Appeals Court

CLAIMS

Calhoun v. Ramsey, 408 F.3d 375 (7th Cir. 2005). A former county jail inmate brought a [section] 1983 action against a sheriff and the county's medical care contractor, alleging deliberate indifference to his medical needs. The district court entered judgment on a jury verdict in favor of the defendants and the former inmate appealed. The appeals court affirmed, finding that the inmate had to show the existence of widespread policies or practices to establish municipal liability, and that the inmate could not establish municipal liability based on a single incident. The inmate alleged that he was injured by the delay of his medication, due to the lack of a provision in the county's medical policy for advance verification of inmate prescription medications. The inmate had been sentenced to serve evenings and weekends at the county jail...