No. 22-6384

Peter Gakuba v. Larry Henderson, et al.

Lower Court: Seventh Circuit
Docketed: 2022-12-22
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: 14th-amendment 8th-amendment administrative-remedies civil-rights constitutional-violations deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment kosher-meal-requirements prisoner-rights
Key Terms:
DueProcess FourthAmendment
Latest Conference: 2023-02-17
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the Eighth Amendment requires prison officials to accommodate a prisoner's serious medical needs, including a life-threatening food allergy, and whether the failure to do so constitutes deliberate indifference and cruel and unusual punishment

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

ISSUES PRESENTED FOR REVIEW 1. GAKUBA V. HENDERSON, 21-3205 (USCA7) | Gakuba exhausted all his available administrative remedies when grieving Vienna prison staffers’ deliberate ignorance to Gakuba’s seafood allergy, and religious kosher meal | requirements—as they intentionally sought to starve him to death. See Williams v. Wexford Health Sources, 957 F.3d 828 (7th Cir. 2020). A Pavey hearing was required at a minimum. . Equitable relief was mandated as starvation constitutes torture. Gakuba, 21-1473. First, Eighth, and 14" Amendments violations. | | | | | | | | i/iv |

Docket Entries

2023-02-21
Petition DENIED.
2023-02-02
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 2/17/2023.
2023-01-03
Waiver of right of respondents Larry Henderson, et al. to respond filed.
2022-12-17
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due January 23, 2023)

Attorneys

Larry Henderson, et al.
Frank Henry BieszczatOffice of the Illinois Attorney General, Respondent
Frank Henry BieszczatOffice of the Illinois Attorney General, Respondent
Peter Gakuba
Peter Gakuba — Petitioner
Peter Gakuba — Petitioner