Cunningham v. Washington

ORDER

Bennie Cunningham filed this suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 alleging violations of the First, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments and state law by a number of Illinois prison officials. In a series of orders, the district court dismissed all of Cunningham’s claims except for one First Amendment claim. That claim went to trial, but after Cunningham refused to proceed when he was denied a continuance at the beginning of trial, the district court dismissed his case. Cunningham appeals all of the district court’s rulings and we affirm.

In September 1996 Cunningham was transferred from Pontiac…