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MAYES v. ELROD

No. 77 C 709.

470 F.Supp. 1188 (1979)

Ronald MAYES, Plaintiff v. Richard J. ELROD, Individually and as Sheriff of Cook County, Winston E. Moore, Individually and as Executive Director of the Cook County Department of Corrections, Robert E. Glotz, John Brown, Richard English, Roland Johnson, the Cook County Department of Corrections, County of Cook, and the Cook County Board of Commissioners, Defendants.

United States District Court, N. D. Illinois, E. D.

May 18, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Martin J. Dubowsky, Marc S. Simon, Fohrman, Lurie, Holstein, Sklar & Cottle, Ltd., and David M. Schneider, Pritzker & Glass, Ltd., Chicago, Ill., for plaintiff.

Mitchell Ware, Chicago, Ill., for defendant Winston E. Moore.

Bernard Carey, State's Atty., Cook County, and John A. Dienner, III, Asst. State's Atty., Chicago, Ill., for all other defendants.

MEMORANDUM DECISION

MARSHALL, District Judge.

Plaintiff brings this civil rights action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 to recover damages for injuries he sustained when he was a state pretrial detainee at the Cook County Jail. The defendants named in the amended complaint are the Cook County Department of Corrections, its former executive director, three correctional officials in the Department, a jail guard, the Cook County Sheriff, Cook County itself...

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