Legal Opinion
Christopher Lekas v. Kenneth Briley
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided April 25, 2005No. 04-1420PublishedCited by 406 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WILLIAMS, Circuit Judge.
Christopher Lekas, a prisoner in the custody of the Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC), makes several constitutional claims relating to his placement and confinement in disciplinary segregation. The district court dismissed his complaint for failure to state a claim. We affirm this dismissal because we find that the allegations of Lekas’s complaint effectively plead him out of court by detailing conditions that do not amount to a deprivation of a liberty interest, and because he failed to present arguments before the district court linking the allegations of…
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