Legal Opinion
Tony Walker v. Tommy G. Thompson
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided May 1, 2002No. 01-2361PublishedCited by 501 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
This is a suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 by a Wisconsin state prisoner against prison officials and a former governor of the state, charging a variety of violations of the plaintiffs federal rights, only three of which need detain us: that the defendants conspired to keep him and other prisoners in prison beyond their mandatory release date; that the defendant prison officials retaliated against him for using the law library; and that they also retaliated against him for filing grievances complaining about prison conditions.
The district judge dismissed the suit for failure…
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