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COURTNEY v. BISHOP

No. 19312.

409 F.2d 1185 (1969)

Robert COURTNEY, Appellant, v. O. E. BISHOP, Superintendent of Arkansas State Penitentiary, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Eighth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied May 7, 1969.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Philip K. Lyon and Robert L. Robinson, Jr., Little Rock, Ark., for appellant.

Don Langston, Deputy Atty. Gen., of Arkansas, Little Rock, Ark., for appellee; Joe Purcell, Atty. Gen., of Arkansas, Little Rock, Ark., with him on the brief.

Before VAN OOSTERHOUT, Chief Judge, and MATTHES and BRIGHT, Circuit Judges.

Matthes, Circuit Judge.

Robert Courtney has appealed from the order of the United States district court dismissing his petition for relief under 42 U.S.C. § 1983.

On May 28, 1967, appellant acting pro se filed a petition in the United States district court seeking relief from alleged cruel and unusual treatment inflicted upon him during solitary confinement in Cummins Farm, a penal institution in the state of Arkansas. Philip K. Lyon and Robert L. Robinson...

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