Legal Opinion
Hughes v. Farris
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided December 7, 2015No. 15-1801PublishedCited by 55 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WOOD, Chief Judge.
Michael Hughes alleges that an employee of the facility where he is civilly committed abused him because he is a homosexual; another employee suspended his treatment for complaining about it. He is confined at the Treatment and Detention Facility in Rushville, Illinois, as a result of his designation as a sexually violent person for purposes of Illinois’s Sexually Violent Persons Commitment Act, 725 ILCS 207/1-99. Invoking 42 U.S.C. § 1983, Hughes sued Michael Farris, the supervisor of the laundry, and Krista Wilcoxen, Rushville’s rehabilitation director. After interviewing…
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