Willie Ross v. Gayle Franzen, James Greer, and Judson Childs

SWYGERT, Senior Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from an order of the magistrate, assigned by the United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois, granting defendants’ motion for summary judgment in a suit brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Plaintiff Willie Ross, an inmate at Menard Correctional Center, claims that the magistrate erred by (1) granting prison officials’ motion for summary judgment without providing him notice and an opportunity to respond to defendants’ affidavit; (2) granting summary judgment when his complaint and the defendants’ affidavit were contradictory;…