Legal Opinion
Haywood v. Hathaway
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided November 29, 2016No. 12-1678PublishedCited by 113 opinions
1Per curiam
Seyon Haywood, formerly an inmate at Illinois’s Shawnee Correctional Center, accused his auto mechanics teacher of attacking him. Guards charged him with making false statements. A disciplinary panel found him guilty and ordered him transferred to segregation for two months; the panel also revoked one month of good-time credit. After these events he was transferred to a different prison, where he remains in custody.
Haywood contends in this proceeding under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 that these penalties violate his right to speech, protected by the Constitution’s First Amendment (applied to states by…
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