UNITED STATES v. PATE

No. 63 C 1205.

223 F.Supp. 202 (1963)

UNITED STATES of America ex rel. Dean HANCOCK, Plaintiff, v. Frank J. PATE, Warden, Illinois State Penitentiary, Joliet, Illinois, Defendant.

United States District Court N. D. Illinois, E. D.

November 7, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dean Hancock, pro se.

William G. Clark, Atty. Gen. of Illinois, Chicago, Ill., for defendant.


WILL, District Judge.

This is another in the never-ending flow of cases initiated by state-incarcerated prisoners alleging an abridgment of their federal civil rights by state prison officials and filed pursuant to the Civil Rights Act, 42 U.S.C. §§ 1981-94.

In what has become an almost predictable response to complaints of this nature, defendant Pate, Warden of the Illinois State Penitentiary at Joliet, moves to dismiss the action on the theory...

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