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Seventh Circuit Reverses Dismissal of Retaliation Claim
Loaded on Dec. 15, 2005
published in Prison Legal News
December, 2005, page 40
The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a district court's dismissal of an Illinois prisoner's retaliation claim.
Filed under:
Retaliation,
Retaliation for Filing Grievances,
Retaliatory Transfers,
Prison Labor,
Frivolous Litigation (PLRA).
Location:
Illinois.
On January 17, 2003, Illinois prisoner Robert Hoskins worked in the Dixon Correctional Center (Dixon) cafeteria when Food Services Supervisor Connie Lenear called him a racial epithet because he could not help relocate ...
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