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· 10/28/2010

Fletcher v. Menard Correctional Center

Citations

  • 623 F.3d 1171
  • 2010 U.S. App. LEXIS 22401
  • 2010 WL 4237566

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • suggesting that while a past beating could not establish imminent danger, an injury from the beating might meet the standard
  • noting that courts may take judicial notice of prior proceedings in a case involving the same litigant
  • approving of district court’s using evidence from a prisoner’s prior lawsuit to find that allegations of imminent danger were not true
  • finding an available remedy where Illinois had created an emergency grievance procedure that expedited review of certain urgent medical complaints
  • collecting cases and observing that courts may “take judicial notice of prior proceedings in a case involving the same litigant”
  • taking judicial notice of judge’s ruling in prior proceeding involving the same litigant

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Bauer, Posner, Wood

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