An Illinois federal court shouldn’t have certified a class of inmates seeking hepatitis C treatment, the Seventh Circuit ruled Monday.
A group of inmates didn’t show that any of their nine proposed class representatives met the requirements to represent the class, the court said.
The inmates first filed their lawsuit in 2008, alleging that the Illinois Department of Corrections’ hepatitis C treatment protocols violated the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments.
The lawsuit alleged that the IDOC and a private healthcare company were “deliberately indifferent to their medical conditions when they chose not to provide necessary treatment.”
Two classes were eventually certified ...
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