Legal Opinion
Bausch v. Sumiec
District Court, E.D. Wisconsin
Decided April 10, 2001No. 99-C-684PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DECISION AND ORDER
ADELMAN, District Judge.
Plaintiff John Bausch, a former Wisconsin prisoner and parolee, brings this action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. He claims that defendants, his former parole officer and the former and present Secretaries of the Wisconsin Department of Corrections, violated the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment, as made applicable to states by the Fourteenth Amendment, by compelling his participation in a religiously-oriented substance abuse treatment program. Before me now is defendants’ motion for summary judgment.
I. FACTUAL BACKGROUND
In 1993, plaintiff was…
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