United States Seventh Circuit

In a prisoner suit alleging that the defendants' act of placing plaintiff in administrative segregation violated his Fourteenth and Eighth Amendment rights, summary judgment for one defendant and denial of plaintiff's motion to amend are affirmed where plaintiff had no liberty interest in avoiding placement in discretionary segregation, and the district court correctly concluded that the motion to amend to add a defendant would be futile. Summary judgment for a second defendant is reversed where there was a material dispute over whether a prison guard knew of unsanitary conditions in plaintiff's cell.

Appellate Information

• Argued 10/25/2007
• Decided 04/10/2008
• Published 04/10/2008

Judges

• KANNE, Circuit Judge., Before EASTERBROOK, Chief Judge, and RIPPLE and KANNE, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• David J. Harth (argued), Heller Ehrman, Madison, WI, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Amanda Anne Dynicki Tollefsen (argued), Office of the Attorney General, Wisconsin Department of Justice, Madison, WI, for Defendants-Appellees.