Legal Opinion
Brian K. Thomson v. Odie Washington
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided April 1, 2004No. 03-2304PublishedCited by 51 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
The complaint in this Illinois state prisoner’s civil rights suit, filed pro se under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, charges prison officials with having confiscated the plaintiffs legal papers (including a brief in the Supreme Court of Illinois) thereby causing him to lose a number of lawsuits, denied him daily physical exercise and a prescribed diet (and incidentally caused him to lose 30 pounds in two months), subjected him to ambient cigarette smoke even though he is allergic to cigarette smoke, and retaliated against him for complaining about these and other conditions of his…
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