Dist. Ct. did not err in granting motion for summary judgment filed by defendants-entity providing medical treatment to prisoners and four individuals providing said treatment in plaintiff-prisoner’s section 1983 action alleging that pain experienced by defendants’ delay in rendering various treatments/surgeries on his knees constituted 8th Amendment violation. Dist. Ct. could properly find that instant delays between treatments were consistent with appropriate medical judgment, and that plaintiff’s failure to establish that any of the four individual defendants/employees of defendant-entity were negligent in treating plaintiff precluded plaintiff from establishing that defendant-entity was liable to plaintiff under doctrine of respondeat superior based on employees' conduct. Also, Ct. noted that although defendant-entity could be liable for its own unconstitutional policies, defendant-entity could not be liable here, where none of said policies cited by plaintiff resulted in plaintiff receiving inappropriate medical treatment.
Federal 7th Circuit Court
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