U.S. Appeals Court: RETALIATION.Johnson v. Stovall, 233 F.3d 486(7th Cir. 2000). A state prisoner one in confinement, or under arrest, for a political offense. See also: State filed a pro se [sections] 1983 action alleging that prison employees violated his Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment Fourteenth Amendment, addition to the U.S. Constitution, adopted 1868. The amendment comprises five sections. Section 1 Section 1 of the amendment declares that all persons born or naturalized in the United States are American citizens and citizens rights and that a prison nurse retaliated against him for his filing of a grievance against her. The district court dismissed the complaint but the appeals court reversed and remanded the case, finding that the retaliation RETALIATION. The act by which a nation or individual treats another in the same manner that the latter has treated them. For example, if a nation should lay a very heavy tariff on American goods, the United States would be justified in return in laying heavy duties on the manufactures and claim could not be dismissed as frivolous. The appeals court found that the prisoner's allegations permitted the inference that the nurse filed false disciplinary charges against him in retaliation his action of filing a grievance against her. (Stateville Correctional Center Stateville Correctional Center is a maximum security state prison for men in Crest Hill, Illinois, USA. History Opened in 1925, Stateville was built to accommodate 1,506 inmates. , Illinois) |
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