KNOWLES v. PFISTER

No. 15-1703.

829 F.3d 516 (2016)

Gilbert KNOWLES, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Randy PFISTER, Warden of Pontiac Correctional Center, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided July 13, 2016.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gilbert Knowles, Pontiac Correctional Center, Pontiac, IL, Pro Se.

Mary Ellen Welsh , Office of the Attorney General, Chicago, IL, for Defendant-Appellee.

Before WOOD, Chief Judge, and POSNER and FLAUM, Circuit Judges.


The plaintiff, a prisoner in Illinois's Pontiac Correctional Center, appeals from the denial of his motion in the district court for a preliminary injunction that would allow him to wear a religious medal called a "pentacle medallion" — a five-pointed silver star set in a circle less than an inch in diameter. Here is...

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