Legal Opinion
Moore v. Mahone
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided July 15, 2011No. 09-3515PublishedCited by 67 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
The plaintiff, an inmate of an Illinois state prison, brought suit against two guards under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 claiming that they had used excessive force against him in an altercation in the prison cafeteria, in violation of his constitutional right to be free from cruel and unusual punishments. The district judge dismissed the claim, without waiting for any response by the defendants, on the authority of Heck v. Humphrey, 512 U.S. 477, 114 S.Ct. 2364, 129 L.Ed.2d 383 (1994). With that claim the plaintiff had joined a claim against medical personnel at a different prison…
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