TANNER v. KERNER

No. 15972.

385 F.2d 415 (1967)

Mac TANNER, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Honorable Otto KERNER, Governor, Mr. William G. Clark, Attorney General, Joseph E. Ragen, (Ex Warden, etc.), Frank Pate, Warden, Paul G. Burris, Assistant Warden, George Stampar, Assistant Warden, and Dr. John Doe Wilson, Officials of the State of Illinois, and the Illinois State Penitentiary, Joliet, Illinois, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Seventh Circuit.

October 26, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mac Tanner, pro se.

William G. Clark, Atty. Gen., Chicago, Ill., for appellees, Richard A. Michael, Robert F. Nix, Asst. Attys. Gen., of counsel.

Before HASTINGS, Chief Judge, and KILEY and SWYGERT, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM.

Petitioner, an inmate of Joliet Penitentiary, filed a civil rights action under 28 U.S.C. Section 1343, and 42 U.S.C. Sections 1981, 1983, 1985 and 1986, charging that defendants individually, and in conspiracy, acting under color of Illinois law, deprived him of access to the courts in violation of his civil rights. The district court dismissed the complaint upon defendants' motion on the grounds that it failed to state a cause of action upon which relief...

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