Legal Opinion
Karamo B. Kaba v. E.A. Stepp, Mickal E. Laird, Dave Benson, and Joseph Yonkman
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 16, 2006No. 03-3531PublishedCited by 977 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WOOD, Circuit Judge.
Karamo Kaba served time as an inmate in the federal prison in Marion, Illinois. He contends that during his incarceration his ease manager, Mickal E. Laird, denied him grievance forms, threatened him, and solicited other inmates to attack him in retaliation for filing grievances, and that the other named officials knew about and did nothing to stop Laird’s activities until after Kaba was actually beaten in his cell on February 23, 2001. He contends these actions violated the Eighth Amendment.
The district court granted summary judgment for the prison officials, finding that…
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