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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.
ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT 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 opin...