Tag: Care
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Dental Expert Not Allowed to Opine on the Quality of Care
While detained in Division 6 of the Cook County Jail, Plaintiff Willie Clay began experiencing a toothache. Clay claimed that he waited nearly a month before being evaluated by a dentist and that, as a result of the delay, he experienced unnecessary pain. For that reason, he brought the present civil rights action on behalf…
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Corrections Expert Was Allowed to Opine on High-Risk Inmates
This case arises from the preventable death of Dalton Milby, who died by suicide on February 12, 2022, while in the custody of the Larue County Detention Center (“LCDC”). He was taken to LCDC, where he was put on suicide watch and issued an anti-suicide smock. Despite this, Milby managed to gain access to a…
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Public Health Expert Was Allowed to Opine on the Quality of Care
This is a securities class action, led by Chicago Laborers’ Pension Fund and New York Hotel Trades Council & Hotel Association of New York City, Inc. Pension Fund (collectively, “Plaintiffs”). Plaintiffs alleged that Acadia Healthcare Company, Inc. (“Acadia”) and several of its current and former executives, including David M. Duckworth, Brent Turner, and Joey A.…
