CHOUDHRY v. JENKINS

No. 76-1967.

559 F.2d 1085 (1977)

Khalid CHOUDHRY, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Leo D. JENKINS et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided July 22, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Myrna Hart, Valparaiso University School of Law, Valparaiso, Ind., for plaintiff-appellant.

Theodore Sendak, Attorney General, Darrel K. Diamond, Asst. Atty. Gen., Indianapolis, Ind., for defendants-appellees.

Before CASTLE, Senior Circuit Judge, and CUMMINGS and PELL, Circuit Judges.


CUMMINGS, Circuit Judge.

On June 24, 1976, Khalid Choudhry, a Pakistani resident alien, was terminated from his position as a correctional officer at the Indiana State Prison at Michigan City, Indiana, after making certain critical comments about the prison's administration to the press. About a week after his dismissal, Choudhry filed a verified 42 U.S.C. § 1983 complaint alleging that his dismissal by the defendant prison officials had unconstitutionally infringed...

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