Legal Opinion
Carlos Colon, Cross-Appellant v. Lieutenant Bruce Schneider, Cross-Appellee
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided April 13, 1990No. 89-1768, 89-1847, 89-1979 and 89-2148PublishedCited by 90 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
COFFEY, Circuit Judge.
Plaintiff Carlos Colon, an inmate at the Columbia Correctional Institution (“CCI”) in Portage, Wisconsin, brought this action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983, alleging that the defendant, Lieutenant Bruce Schneider, a corrections official at CCI, violated his rights under the due process clause of the fourteenth amendment of the United States Constitution 1 when Schneider used Chemical Mace 2 to compel him to submit to a strip search during the course of Colon’s transfer from one area of the CCI to another. The jury found that Lieutenant Schneider had violated the…
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