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ORTIZ v. DOWNEY

No. 06-2453.

561 F.3d 664 (2009)

Rolando ORTIZ, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Michael DOWNEY and Jean Flageole, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided April 1, 2009.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sarah A. Huck, Reinhart, Boerner, Van Deuren, Milwaukee, WI, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Before BAUER, RIPPLE and TINDER, Circuit Judges.

RIPPLE, Circuit Judge.

Rolando Ortiz, a federal pretrial detainee being held in a state jail, brought this action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against Michael Downey, Chief of Corrections at the Jerome Combs Detention Center in Kankakee, Illinois, and Jean Flageole, a nurse at that facility.1 He claimed that, in denying his request for certain religious articles, Chief Downey had violated his rights under the First Amendment's Free Exercise...

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