Legal Opinion
Owens v. Hinsley
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided March 18, 2011No. 09-3618PublishedCited by 1,357 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WOOD, Circuit Judge.
James Owens, an Illinois prisoner, was housed at the Menard Correctional Center when he filed this action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The place of confinement is all that connects his hodgepodge of allegations, which the district court organized into seven claims (some with subparts) against the 15 named Defendants. The court dismissed five of those claims at screening, see 28 U.S.C. § 1915A, and granted summary judgment for the defendants on the other two. Finding no merit in any of Owens’s arguments on appeal, we affirm.
The number of claims and defendants reflected Owens’s…
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