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BYRD v. WOLFF

No. 73-1672.

490 F.2d 1277 (1974)

James BYRD, Appellant, v. Charles L. WOLFF, Jr., Warden, Nebraska Penal Complex, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided January 22, 1974.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James Byrd, pro se.

Clarence A. H. Meyer, Atty. Gen., and Harold S. Salter, Deputy Atty. Gen., Lincoln, Neb., for appellee.

Before MATTHES, Senior Circuit Judge, HEANEY, Circuit Judge, and SMITH, Senior District Judge.

PER CURIAM.

James Byrd commenced a civil rights action in November of 1972 in the United States District Court for the District of Nebraska. He alleged that he was being denied proper medical care by prison officials and was being refused outside medical care. He asked that the appellee be required to furnish him with outside medical care and that he be awarded one million dollars in damages for injuries sustained by him through the failure of the prison officials...

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