Thaddeus-X and Earnest Bell, Jr. v. Blatter

U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit · Decided 1999-03-08

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SUHRHE INRICH, Circuit Judge, concurring in part and dissenting in part. I. This case, which countenances a prisoner’s complaint about cold food, perfectly illustrates the illogic of prisoner retaliation claims. As Chief Justice Rehnquist observed in his dissent in Crawford-El: If the purpose of § 1983 is to “deter some st…

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