Legal Opinion
Blake Conyers v. Tom Abitz
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided July 25, 2005No. 04-1630PublishedCited by 323 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WOOD, Circuit Judge.
Blake Conyers, an Illinois prisoner, filed suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against Wisconsin prison officials for actions taken while he was incarcerated in that state. The district court granted summary judgment to the defendants, reasoning that Conyers had failed to exhaust his claims. We conclude, however, that Conyers did exhaust one of his claims and so remand in part for further proceedings.
The incidents giving rise to Conyers’s complaint began in 1995. In May of that year, guards searched Conyers and confiscated gang-related photographs he had on his person. Conyers was…
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