In a recent ruling, a district court in the Southern District of Illinois held that Wexford may not withhold documents assessing the quality of its care under a state privilege law, finding that the policy underlying the state privilege law did not outweigh the federal interests in the case, which raises questions about violations of the Constitution. The court also ordered Wexford to produce documents without redactions and in native format, finding that the redactions were “unnecessary and disruptive to an orderly resolution of the case.” The order comes in a case concerning the death of Kevin Curtis, a young man who was incarcerated at Menard Correctional Center, where the plaintiff (Yolanda Jackson, Mr. Curtis’s mother) has alleged that Defendants violated Mr. Curtis’s rights under the Eighth Amendment when they failed to provide adequate medical treatment, leading to his death.
