KABA v. STEPP

No. 03-3531.

458 F.3d 678 (2006)

Karamo B. KABA, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. E.A. STEPP, Mickal E. Laird, Dave Benson, and Joseph Yonkman, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided August 16, 2006.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David W. Fuller (argued), Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

David S. Baker, Peter Maharry (argued), Fisher, Patterson & Smith, Overland Park, KS, for Defendant-Appellee, E.A. Stepp.

Frederick J. Hess (argued), Lewis, Rice & Fingersh, Belleville, IL, for Defendant-Appellee, M. Laird.

Carl Gallagher, McAnny, Van Cleave & Phillips, Kansas City, KS, for Defendant-Appellee, Captain Benson.

A. Courtney Cox, Hart & Hart, Benton, IL, for Defendants-Appellees, Joseph Yonkman.

Before ROVNER, WOOD, and EVANS, Circuit Judges.


WOOD, Circuit Judge.

Karamo Kaba served time as an inmate in the federal prison in Marion, Illinois. He contends that during his incarceration his case manager, Mickal E. Laird, denied him grievance forms, threatened him, and solicited other inmates to attack him in retaliation for filing grievances, and that the other named officials knew about and did nothing to stop Laird's activities until after Kaba was actually beaten...

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