Legal Opinion
Bridges v. Gilbert
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided March 4, 2009No. 07-1551PublishedCited by 922 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TINDER, Circuit Judge.
Jimmy Bridges, an inmate at the Wisconsin Secure Program Facility, witnessed events leading to the death of a fellow inmate. After he assisted the inmate’s mother by providing an affidavit in a wrongful death lawsuit against prison officials, Bridges perceived that certain prison officials and guards (to whom we refer collectively as “Defendants”) had begun to harass him. He filed a pro se § 1983 action alleging that the Defendants retaliated against him for exercising his First Amendment rights and prevented him from petitioning the government for redress of grievances.…
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