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BILLS v. HENDERSON

Civ. No. 3-77-165.

446 F.Supp. 967 (1978)

Wendell BILLS, Michael Doyle, Bobby Howard, Hastie Eugene Love, George Scanlow, Billy Ray Smith, Wayne Teasley, Jerry Ward, Donald Wheeler, Jr., James Wingard v. Murray HENDERSON, Commissioner of Corrections, Stonney Lane, Warden, Brushy Mountain Penitentiary, and the Tennessee Department of Corrections.

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

February 24, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carol S. Nickle, U. T. Legal Clinic Community Office, Knoxville, Tenn., for plaintiffs.

Patricia Cottrell, Nashville, Tenn., for defendants.

MEMORANDUM

ROBERT L. TAYLOR, District Judge.

This is an action brought pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Plaintiffs seek injunctive and declaratory relief as well as compensatory and punitive damages for alleged violation of their constitutional rights to due process in prison disciplinary proceedings. The named plaintiffs were, at all pertinent times, inmates at the Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary. At all...

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