BLACK v. LANE

No. 85-2935.

824 F.2d 561 (1987)

Muriel D. BLACK, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Michael P. LANE, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided July 13, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Diana C. White, Jenner & Block, Chicago, Ill., for plaintiff-appellant.

Rita M. Novak, Ill. Atty. Gen. Office, Chicago, Ill., for defendants-appellees.

Before BAUER, Chief Judge, WOOD and POSNER, Circuit Judges.


BAUER, Chief Judge.

Muriel Black, a black resident at the Menard Correctional Center in Illinois, filed a pro se complaint in which he alleged that the responsible officials assigned prison jobs at Menard on a racially discriminatory basis. He also contended that prison officials had retaliated against him for filing a 1979 complaint with the Office of Civil Rights Compliance of the United States Department of Justice. In the administrative complaint, Black...

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