Legal Opinion
Greene v. Doruff
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided October 11, 2011No. 10-3497PublishedCited by 179 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
The plaintiff, a state prison inmate, worked as a clerk in the prison library. Defendant Doruff, the prison’s director of education, ordered the plaintiff fired on the ground that while on the job he had highlighted photocopies of judicial opinions for his personal use (a case he was working on with another inmate) and had stolen a judicial opinion from the library (the Anders opinion, no less). The plaintiff responded by filing a complaint in the prison grievance system against Doruff, charging that Doruff had had no cause for firing him. A month later, but apparently…
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