TOWNSEND v. FUCHS

No. 07-1384.

522 F.3d 765 (2008)

Reggie TOWNSEND, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Larry FUCHS and Jerry Allen, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided April 10, 2008.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David J. Harth (argued), Heller Ehrman, Madison, WI, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Amanda Anne Dynicki Tollefsen (argued), Office of the Attorney General, Wisconsin Department of Justice, Madison, WI, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before EASTERBROOK, Chief Judge, and RIPPLE and KANNE, Circuit Judges.


KANNE, Circuit Judge.

Wisconsin inmate Reggie Townsend filed a civil-rights action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against Larry Fuchs, Security Director at the New Lisbon Correctional Institution, and Sergeant Jerry Allen, a correctional officer in the segregation unit at the prison. Townsend, who was held at New Lisbon at all times pertinent to this appeal, claimed that Fuchs violated his Fourteenth Amendment right to due process by placing him, for 59 days, in administrative...

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