Legal Opinion
Kenneth Ogurek v. Jeffrey Gabor
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided June 27, 2016No. 15-1151PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
The plaintiff, Kenneth Ogurek, a prisoner in Illinois’s Pontiac Correctional Center, seeks damages under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 from Jeffrey Gabor, one of the prison’s security investigators, who the plaintiff claims violated the First Amendment by charging him with a disciplinary infraction in retaliation for Ogurek’s having complained about Gabor to the warden. The district judge granted summary judgment in favor of the defendant on the ground that Ogurek had presented no evidence contradicting Gabor’s denial that his charging Ogurek with an infraction was motivated by…
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- Larry Bryant v. City of ChicagoCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2014
- Brian Herron v. Douglas MeyerCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2016
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