U.S. Appeals Court: RETALIATION.

Johnson v. Stovall, 233 F.3d 486(7th Cir. 2000). A state prisoner filed a pro se [sections] 1983 action alleging that prison employees violated his Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment 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 claim could not be dismissed as frivolous. The appeals...