Joshua L. Moore v. Lori Byrd

United States Court of Appeals
For the Seventh Circuit
Chicago, Illinois 60604
Submitted September 29, 2025*
Decided September 30, 2025
Before
MICHAEL Y. SCUDDER, Circuit Judge
AMY J. ST. EVE, Circuit Judge
NANCY L. MALDONADO, Circuit Judge
No. 24-3006
JOSHUA L. MOORE,
Plaintiff-Appellant,
v.
LORI BYRD, et al.,
Defendants-Appellees.
Appeal from the United States District
Court for the Northern District of
Indiana, Fort Wayne Division.
No. 1:24-CV-333-HAB-SLC
Holly A. Brady,
Chief Judge.
O R D E R
Joshua Moore, an Indiana prisoner, appeals the district court’s denial of his
motion for a preliminary injunction regarding the medical care he received as a pretrial
detainee at the Grant County Jail in Indiana. While this appeal was pending, Moore was
transferred to another facility, and so we dismiss the appeal as moot.
* We have agreed to decide the case without oral argument because the briefs and record
adequately present the facts and legal arguments, and oral argument would not significantly aid the
court. FED . R. A PP . P. 34(a)(2)(C).
NONPRECEDENTIAL DISPOSITION
To be cited only in accordance with F ED. R. APP . P. 32.1

-- 1 of 2 --

No. 24-3006 Page 2
In August 2024, Moore brought this suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against several
Grant County Jail officials, among others, alleging that their failure to provide adequate
medical care violated his rights under the Fourteenth Amendment. He alleged that jail
officials prevented him from wearing an arm brace that he had been wearing for a pre-
existing shoulder injury and refused to grant his request to be housed in a medical
ward. Left in general population, he added, he was physically assaulted by two
detainees and suffered further shoulder damage.
At the same time that Moore filed his complaint, he moved for a preliminary
injunction to compel jail officials to schedule an MRI and surgery for his shoulder and
to place him in administrative segregation. The district court denied the motion,
concluding that Moore did not show a likelihood of success on a claim that his medical
care was objectively unreasonable. As for his housing placement, the court determined
that his condition was being accommodated by an assignment to a single cell with a
lower bunk and that his reasons for wanting to be in segregation were beyond the scope
of his preliminary injunction motion.
Moore appeals the interlocutory order denying his motion for a preliminary
injunction. See 28 U.S.C. § 1292(a)(1). But several months after filing his opening brief,
he was transferred from Grant County Jail to an Indiana Department of Correction
facility in Pendleton, Indiana.† Moore’s transfer to a different institution thus moots his
claim for injunctive relief, which pertains only to the specific conditions at Grant
County Jail. See Calhoun v. DeTella, 319 F.3d 936, 939 (7th Cir. 2003). We see no evidence
that Moore will be incarcerated again at Grant County Jail, see Maddox v. Love, 655 F.3d
709, 716 (7th Cir. 2011), and his claim does not seek relief from a system-wide policy,
see Lehn v. Holmes, 364 F.3d 862, 871–72 (7th Cir. 2004).
DISMISSED
† See Incarcerated Data Search for Joshua L. Moore, DOC Number 273424,
https://offenderlocator.idoc.in.gov/idoc-ofs-1.0.2/ofs (search for Moore’s DOC Number “273424” last
performed September 15, 2025).

-- 2 of 2 --