REDDING v. FAIRMAN

Nos. 82-1472, 82-1541, 82-1892 and 82-1955.

717 F.2d 1105 (1983)

James REDDING, Jamal Ali Akbar a/k/a James I. Benson, Donald Woodruff, Donald Jones, Paul William Tedder, Melvin Nalls, and Jeffrey Armstrong, Plaintiffs-Appellees, Cross-Appellants, v. James FAIRMAN, Capt. Wheat, Capt. Hosier, Capt. Shehorn, Capt. Poe, Capt. Wenzelman, Lt. Martinez, Lt. Foster, Lt. Delos Santos, Mary Catherine Noonan, Kent Mills, Ferd Klaren, Larry Livingston, R.K. Hanson, Terry Williams, Hugh Johnson, Diane Marion, John Kammerman, and Five Unknown Members of the Institutional Adjustment Committee, Defendants-Appellants, Cross-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided September 13, 1983.

Certiorari Denied February 21, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas A. Ioppolo, Asst. Atty. Gen., Chicago, Ill., for defendants-appellants, cross-appellees.

J. Steven Beckett, Champaign, Ill., for plaintiffs-appellees, cross-appellants.

Before BAUER, WOOD, Circuit Judges, and ROSENN, Senior Circuit Judge.


Certiorari Denied February 21, 1984. See 104 S.Ct. 1282.

BAUER, Circuit Judge.

The eighteen defendants, all staff of the Illinois Department of Corrections, appeal from adverse judgments on jury verdicts and an award of attorney's fees and costs entered in consolidated cases filed under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (1979) and 28 U.S.C. § 1343 (1979). The plaintiffs, all prison inmates, cross-appeal on several issues.

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