Legal Opinion
Santiago v. Walls
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided March 29, 2010No. 07-1219PublishedCited by 795 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RIPPLE, Circuit Judge.
Fabian Santiago was a prisoner at the Menard Correctional Center in Illinois (“Menard”), where he was assaulted on several occasions. He filed this pro se action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against certain officers and employees of the Illinois Department of Corrections (“IDOC”), alleging that they had violated his constitutional rights by failing to protect him from other inmates, failing to provide him with medical care and retaliating against him for speaking out against the IDOC. The court dismissed three of the seven claims that Mr. Santiago brought for failure to state…
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