Legal Opinion
James Carl Higgs v. William E. Carver and James M. Wolfe
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided April 1, 2002No. 01-1559PublishedCited by 258 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
This prisoner’s civil rights suit raises a multitude of claims, but only two have sufficient merit to warrant discussion.
While a pretrial detainee in an Indiana county jail, Higgs got into a fight with another inmate and was placed in “lock-down segregation,” a form of solitary confinement. He filed a grievance with the jail authorities, who ten days after he had been placed in lockdown segregation wrote him that he had been “placed on lockdown for repeatedly threatening and harassing other inmates and has continued on lock-down as he has repeatedly cussed and attempted…
2Cases cited16 opinions
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- Anderson v. County of KernCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1995
- Ricky J. Rapier v. Sheriff William Harris, Jail Commander Jon Marvel, Correctional Officer Ray HigginbothamCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1999
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