MATRISCIANO v. RANDLE

No. 06-1599.

569 F.3d 723 (2009)

Ronald MATRISCIANO, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Michael P. RANDLE, Director of the Department of Corrections of the State of Illinois, and Donald Snyder, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided June 26, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Howard W. Feldman, Attorney (argued), Kelli E. Gordon, Feldman, Wasser, Draper & Benson, Springfield, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Mary E. Welsh, Attorney (argued), Office of the Attorney General, Civil Appeals Division, Chicago, IL, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before RIPPLE, WILLIAMS, and SYKES, Circuit Judges.


WILLIAMS, Circuit Judge.

After an Assistant Deputy Director in the Illinois Department of Corrections voluntarily testified at a Prisoner Review Board hearing in support of an inmate's release, his employer transferred him to another role in the Department. He maintains that doing so violated the rights guaranteed to him by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. At the time of the transfer, however, it was not clearly established that the employer...

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