Legal Opinion
Wallace Weicherding v. David Riegel, Kenneth P. Dobucki and Howard A. Peters, III
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided November 6, 1998No. 97-3991PublishedCited by 61 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MANION, Circuit Judge.
While a sergeant at an Illinois state prison, Wallace Weieherding promoted and held a Ku Klux Klan rally. The prison terminated him for conduct unbecoming an officer. Weieherding then sued the prison’s warden and others, claiming that his First Amendment rights were violated. The district court granted summary judgment to the defendants. We affirm.
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The Illinois Department of Corrections hired Wallace Weicherding to work as a prison guard in 1980, and soon thereafter, he began working at the Graham Correctional Center. Graham is a medium security facility, housing about…
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