United States Seventh Circuit

In a prisoner suit alleging that prison officials violated plaintiff's First Amendment and equal protection rights by implementing and enforcing a policy that prevented him from giving face-to-face interviews with the media and from talking with the media about other inmates, summary judgment for defendants is reversed and remanded where defendant raised a genuine issue of fact as to whether the defendants' proffered justification for the policy banning face-to-face interviews was pretextual.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/15/2008
• Published 01/15/2008

Judges

• EASTERBROOK, Chief Judge., Before EASTERBROOK, Chief Judge, and BAUER, POSNER, KANNE, ROVNER, WOOD, EVANS, and SYKES, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Jerold S. Solovy, Chad E. Bell, Jenner & Block, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellant., Lucy A. Dalglish, Gregg P. Leslie, Nathan Winegar, Kevin M. Goldberg, Fletcher, Heald & Hildreth, Arlington, VA, Stephen A. Key, Hoosier State Press Association, Indianapolis, IN, Bruce W. Sanford, Bruce D. Brown, Laurie A. Babinski, Baker & Hostetler, Kathleen A. Kirby, Wiley Rein, Washington, DC, for Amicus Curiae.


• For Appellees:
  
• Edward Himmelfarb, Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for Defendants-Appellees.