Moore v. Liszewski

POSNER, Circuit Judge.

The plaintiff, an Illinois state prison inmate, brought this federal constitutional suit against a correctional officer (and other prison employees, but they unquestionably were properly dismissed by the district court) with whom he had had an altercation almost a decade ago. He claimed that the officer, Peter Liszewski, had used excessive force against him. Following our remand from the initial dismissal of his suit, see Moore v. Mahone, 652 F.3d 722 (7th Cir. 2011), the case was tried to a jury. The jury’s verdict determined that Liszewski had indeed used excessive…