CHICAGO – U.S. Seventh Circuit appellate judges who balked at a $29.6 million judgment against the government in a kidney damage case last year cast off their doubts and approved that amount on Dec. 17.
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Feds Tell 7th Circ. $30M Kidney Failure Award Still Unjustified
Law360 (January 14, 2021, 10:52 PM EST) A federal lawyer told the Seventh Circuit on Thursday that a $29.7 million award for a kidney failure patient shouldn t stand, saying that a judge shirked the proper analysis needed when finding that the patient bore no blame for the progression of his hypertension.
Patient Kevin Clanton s case against the federally funded Southern Illinois Healthcare Foundation is at the Seventh Circuit for the second time after the appeals court initially said in an opinion written by now-Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett that Clanton s bench trial judge needed to elucidate the reasoning for finding Clanton 0% responsible for the.