SPIEGLA v. HULL

No. 05-3722.

481 F.3d 961 (2007)

Nancy SPIEGLA, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Edward HULL, Individually and as an employee of Westville Correctional Facility, Herbert Newkirk, Individually and as Superintendent of Westville Correctional Facility, and Bernard Johnson, Individually and as an Employee of Westville Correctional Facility, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided March 30, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael K. Sutherlin (argued), Sutherlin & Associates, Indianapolis, IN, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

David L. Steiner (argued), Office of the Attorney General, Indianapolis, IN, for Defendants-Appellants.

Before EASTERBROOK, Chief Judge, and POSNER and SYKES, Circuit Judges.


SYKES, Circuit Judge.

This First Amendment retaliation case is before us for the second time. In the first appeal, we held that Indiana State Correctional Officer Nancy Spiegla engaged in protected speech by reporting a possible security lapse to an assistant superintendent at the Westville Correctional Facility where she worked. On remand, a jury found that the defendants—Westville's superintendent, assistant superintendent, and a senior corrections officer...

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