# Paine v. Cason

> Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · May 17, 2012 · 678 F.3d 500

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/800068

## Case

- **Full name:** Kathleen PAINE, as Guardian of the Estate of Christina Rose Eilman, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Richard CASON, Et Al., Defendants-Appellants
- **Court:** Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
- **Decided:** May 17, 2012
- **Citations:** 678 F.3d 500; 2012 WL 1434961
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Opinion by Easterbrook
- **Judges:** Easterbrook, Chief Judge, and Posner and Rovner, Circuit Judges
- **Cited by:** 60 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- affirming denial of qualified immunity on failure to provide care to detainee with bipolar disorder while detainee was in custody; “Eilman alternated between calm and manic conduct, sometimes chatting amiably while sometimes screaming, chanting rap lyrics, smearing menstrual b…
- finding a State-created danger where police arrested a woman in a safe place and released her in a hazardous area while she was unable to protect herself

## Opinion text

United States Court of Appeals
For the Seventh Circuit
Chicago, Illinois 60604
May 17, 2012

Before

FRANK H. EASTERBROOK, Chief Judge

RICHARD A. POSNER, Circuit Judge

ILANA DIAMOND ROVNER, Circuit Judge

No. 10-1487 Appeal from the United
States District Court for the
KATHLEEN PAINE, as guardian of the estate of Northern District of Illinois,
Christina Rose Eilman, Eastern Division.
Plaintiff-Appellee,
No. 06 C 3173
v. Virginia M. Kendall, Judge.

RICHARD CASON, et al.,
Defendants-Appellants.

Order

The slip opinion of this court issued on April 26, 2012, is amended as
follows:

1. The sentence at 19 reading "Actually they were for the control of
her bipolar disorder.” is changed to “Yet they may have been for the
control of her bipolar disorder.”

2. The sentence at 21 reading "Sharon Stokes, a detention aide at the
Second District, inventoried Eilman’s possessions and found the
psychotropic medication.” is changed to "Sharon Stokes, a detention aide
No. 10-1487 Page 2

at the Second District, inventoried Eilman’s possessions and found some
medication, which may have been for control of her mental condition.”

Defendants-appellants filed a petition for rehearing on May 9, 2012 and
plaintiff-appellee filed a petition for rehearing on May 11, 2012. All of the judges
on the panel have voted to deny the petition for rehearing filed by the
defendants-appellants. A majority of the judges on the panel have voted to deny
the petition for rehearing filed by the plaintiff-appellee. Judge Rovner voted to
grant this petition. The petitions for rehearing are therefore DENIED.

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