Legal Opinion
Donald Olendzki v. Neil Rossi
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 29, 2014No. 12-1340PublishedCited by 59 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BAUER, Circuit Judge.
Donald Olendzki is a psychologist at an Illinois state prison. After he was elected to his union’s Executive Board, Olendzki began to advocate on behalf of his fellow union members and to voice his concerns to the management staff at the prison. Olendzki believes that this advocacy led to hostile relationships with his superiors and caused them to retaliate against him. So Olendzki sued six of his superiors under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, claiming that they retaliated against him for his union advocacy, a violation of his First Amendment rights. The defendants moved for summary…
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