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Seventh Circuit: No Public Interest Requirement in Prisoner's First Amendment Retaliation Suit

by Matt Clarke

On March 4, 2009, the Seventh Circuit court of appeals held that a prisoner who alleges retaliation for free speech was not required to show that the speech engaged in concerned a matter of public interest.

Jimmy D. Bridges, a Wisconsin state prisoner, filed a civil rights ...

 

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