United States Seventh Circuit

A parolee cannot state a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 claim against the state or its officials, for purportedly violating his rights to travel and marry by refusing to let him take a trip to the Philippines to marry a woman with whom he began corresponding while he was incarcerated.

Appellate Information

• Argued 06/10/2003
• Decided 07/15/2003
• Published 07/15/2003

Judges

• DIANE P. WOOD, Circuit Judge., Before KANNE, DIANE P. WOOD, and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Robert E. Sutton (argued), Milwaukee, WI, for plaintiff-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• James E. Doyle, Karla Z. Keckhaver (argued), Office of the Attorney General, Wisconsin Department of Justice, Madison, WI, for defendants-appellees.