Legal Opinion
Watkins v. Kasper
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided March 31, 2010No. 08-3105PublishedCited by 216 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TINDER, Circuit Judge.
In this civil rights case under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, we consider the scope of prisoners’ First Amendment rights to complain about prison conditions. Charles Watkins, an inmate at Indiana’s Miami Correctional Facility (“MCF”), brought a § 1983 action against Dr. Barbara Kasper, a librarian for the MCF’s law library, alleging that Kasper retaliated against him for exercising his First Amendment right to criticize library policies. The case went to a trial before a jury, who heard the following evidence.
Around July 2003, Watkins got a job as an “offender law clerk” in the…
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