Legal Opinion
Keith D. Schacht v. Wisconsin Department of Corrections
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided April 16, 1999No. 96-3633PublishedCited by 204 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DIANE P. WOOD, Circuit Judge.
This case is about two pounds of butter, two garbage bags, six pens, and a three-ounce tube of toothpaste, but its paltry material basis has not kept it from occasioning the loss of one man’s livelihood, the attentions of state and federal trial judges, two separate rounds of intermediate appellate review and even a trip to the Supreme Court. With this opinion, we hope to write the final stanzas of the epic.
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Keith Schacht began his 11-year career with the Wisconsin Department of Corrections in 1982. For more than a decade, he received uniformly favorable…
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3Cited by204 opinions
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