United States District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin

06/10/2021 | News release | Distributed by Public on 06/10/2021 08:51

Regis Grice

Plaintiff Regis Grice, a prisoner at Waupun Correctional Institution, is proceeding to trial on Eighth Amendment medical care deliberate indifference claims against five Waupun officials who were members of a committee that denied plaintiff a thick or extra mattress on January 17, 2019, despite plaintiff's diagnosis with severe degenerative joint disease in his left hip. This claim survived summary judgment, and the trial schedule was stayed pending recruitment of counsel. Attached please find the court's summary judgment opinion.