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KING v. FEDERAL BUREAU OF PRISONS

No. 03-2431.

415 F.3d 634 (2005)

Anthony KING, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. FEDERAL BUREAU OF PRISONS and Charles Gilkey, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided July 13, 2005.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Anthony King, Greenville, IL, pro se.

Agostino Lorenzini (argued), Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Nathan E. Wyatt (argued), Office of the United States Attorney, Criminal Division, Fairview Heights, IL, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before POSNER, COFFEY, and KANNE, Circuit Judges.

POSNER, Circuit Judge.

Anthony King, an inmate at a federal prison in Illinois, brought this suit for damages against both the prison's warden and the Bureau of Prisons, claiming that they had violated his federal constitutional rights by forbidding him to telephone his stockbroker and to buy a book on computer programming. The district judge, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1915A(a), which requires district judges to screen prisoner suits for merit as soon as they are...

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