United States Seventh Circuit

Judgment as a matter of law for the defendants in a 42 U.S.C. 1983 prisoner's suit alleging meal deprivation is affirmed where the prisoner's failure to comply with mealtime regulations led to the deprivation instead of a desire on the part of the guards to punish, and where the prisoner suffered no lasting detrimental health consequences.

Appellate Information

• Argued 11/07/2005
• Decided 03/23/2006
• Published 03/23/2006

Judges

• POSNER, Circuit Judge., Before POSNER, EASTERBROOK, and WOOD, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

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


• For Appellees:
  
• Charles D. Hoornstra (argued), Peggy A. Lautenschlager, Office of the Attorney General, Wisconsin Department of Justice, Madison, WI, for Defendants-Appellees.