Mays v. Springborn, No. 11-2218 (7th Cir. 2013)
Annotate this CaseA former Illinois state prison inmate filed suit under 42 U.S.C. 1983 in 2001, alleging that he was subjected to improper strip searches intended to humiliate him in retaliation for his grievances complaining about the earlier searches. Following a remand, a jury returned a verdict in favor of the defendants. The Seventh Circuit reversed and remanded. The trial judge put the burden of proof on the wrong party by instructing the jury that “to prevail on his claim of retaliation, the plaintiff must prove that the grievances … were the sole cause of the particular strip search.”
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