KEENEY v. HEATH

No. 95-1091.

57 F.3d 579 (1995)

Nancy S. KEENEY, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. David R. HEATH, individually and in his official capacity as Sheriff of Tippecanoe County; Steve Grant, Captain, individually and in his official capacity as Jail Commander; and Tippecanoe County, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided June 15, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ivan E. Bodensteiner, Valparaiso, IN (argued), for plaintiff-appellant.

Lawrence B. O'Connell, John H. Meyers (argued), Lafayette, IN, for defendants-appellees.

Before POSNER, Chief Judge, and WOOD, Jr. and COFFEY, Circuit Judges.


POSNER, Chief Judge.

Nancy Summers was a guard at the Tippecanoe (Indiana) County Jail in 1991. Mitch Keeney was one of the prisoners, serving a sentence for a property offense. They became acquainted. Captain Grant, the commander of the jail, became suspicious that Mitch and Nancy might be romantically involved (whether they actually were or not, at this stage of their acquaintance, we do not know), and so he had Mitch transferred to another facility of the Indiana...

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