United States Sixth Circuit

Prison guards are not entitled to qualified immunity to a former inmate's 42 U.S.C. section 1983 claim that they shook down his cell and confiscated property, in retaliation for a civil rights lawsuit filed while he was an inmate.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/17/2002
• Published 10/17/2002

Judges

• Before KEITH, MOORE, and GILMAN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Sixth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Paul D. Reingold (argued and briefed), University of Michigan Clinical Law Program, Ann Arbor, MI, for Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• John L. Thurber (argued and briefed), Office of the Attorney General, Lansing, MI, for Appellees.