A federal appeals court has revived a lawsuit alleging medical personnel in the Cook County Jail failed to treat a pretrial detainee suffering from lung cancer and instead accused him of malingering.
In a written opinion last week, the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals did not rule on the merits of the claims Lula Dixon brought against the county and two medical providers on behalf of her late son’s estate.
But the court held Dixon presented enough evidence to go to trial on her claims that the defendants were deliberately indifferent to her son’s serious medical condition in violation of his constitutional rights.
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