Legal Opinion
George v. Smith
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided November 9, 2007No. 07-1325PublishedCited by 4,601 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EASTERBROOK, Chief Judge.
Larry George, one of Wisconsin’s prisoners, sued 24 persons who have had some role in his confinement — guards, wardens, nurses, members of the parole board, and more. His sprawling complaint charges some defendants with failing to provide adequate medical care, others with censoring his mail, yet others with mishandling his applications for parole, and so on. The district court dismissed some of his claims on the pleadings, see 2005 WL 1812890, 2005 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 16139 (W.D.Wis. Aug. 2, 2005), and the rest on summary judgment, see 2007 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 2421…
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