Legal Opinion
Anthony Dewalt v. Lamark Carter, Correctional Officer Young, Carol Biester
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 11, 2000No. 98-2415PublishedCited by 969 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RIPPLE, Circuit Judge.
Anthony DeWalt, an Illinois prisoner proceeding • pro se, seeks compensatory and punitive damages under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against five individuals employed at the Dixon Correctional Center (“Dixon”) for alleged violations of his First, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights. Mr. DeWalt claims that various defendants used racially insulting and sexually explicit language when speaking to him, engaged in a racially motivated and retaliatory conspiracy to get him fired from his prison job, retaliated against him in a variety of other ways for filing a grievance against a…
2Cases cited61 opinions
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- Wolff v. McDonnellSupreme Court of the United States · 1974
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