Legal Opinion
James C. Sarlund v. Jeffrey M. Anderson
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided March 10, 2000No. 99-2116PublishedCited by 38 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Chief Judge.
This is a suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against 28 federal, state, and local law enforcement officers, who are alleged to have conspired to deprive the plaintiff of his civil rights in retaliation for his reporting the defendants’ misconduct to their superiors and insisting that the defendants investigate drug offenses which he claims to have discovered while working as a confidential informant. Among the retaliatory acts that the defendants are alleged to have committed was inducing a woman to accuse the plaintiff of stalking her and to obtain an injunction against him and…
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