Legal Opinion
Fairley v. Andrews
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 20, 2009No. 07-3343PublishedCited by 184 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EASTERBROOK, Chief Judge.
Roger Fairley and Richard Gackowski worked as guards at the Cook County Jail in Chicago. After their peers threatened to kill them, they quit and sued the other guards, complaint handlers, the sheriff, and the County. (In saying that death threats were made, and throughout the opinion, we present the evidence in the light most favorable to plaintiffs. Defendants deny many of plaintiffs’ principal contentions.)
Guards at the Jail regularly beat prisoners without justification. The harm plaintiffs complain of, however, is not the injuries suffered by prisoners but how…
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