McElroy v. Lopac.

• Position: FREE SPEECH, EXPRESSION, AND ASSOCIATION - Brief Article

U.S. Appeals Court

FREE SPEECH

RETALIATION

McElroy v. Lopac, 403 F.3d 855 (7th Cir. 2005). An inmate brought a civil rights action against prison officials, alleging that he was fired from his prison job in retaliation for exercising his First Amendment right to free speech. The district court dismissed the case for failure to state a claim, and the inmate appealed. The appeals court affirmed. The court held that the inmate's inquiries about lay-in pay were a matter of purely individual economic importance and not of public concern, and were not protected by the...