PERRY v. ELROD

No. 76 C 3960.

436 F.Supp. 299 (1977)

Arthur PERRY, Jr., Plaintiff, v. Richard ELROD, Winston Moore, and John Blanks, Defendants.

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

August 19, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gary S. Laser, IIT/Chicago-Kent College of Law, Legal Services Center, Chicago, Ill., M. Steven Lubet, Northwestern Legal Assistance Clinic, Chicago, Ill., for plaintiff.

Bernard Carey, State's Atty., by Frederic B. Weinstein, Asst. State's Atty., Chicago, Ill., for defendants.


MEMORANDUM DECISION

MARSHALL, District Judge.

Plaintiff, Arthur Perry, Jr., brings this action against Richard Elrod, Sheriff of Cook County, Winston Moore, Executive Director of the Cook County Department of Corrections, and John Blanks, Chief of Security of the House of Corrections, for violating his First and Fourteenth Amendment rights, through 42 U.S.C. § 1983. He seeks declaratory and injunctive relief, and money damages. Jurisdiction is based...

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