ALLEN v. DORSEY

Civ. A. No. 75-1505.

463 F.Supp. 44 (1978)

Donald Edward ALLEN, Anne Mary Allen, Dawn Anne Allen, Raymond Edward Allen v. Joseph W. DORSEY, Individually and in his official capacity as Clerk of Court for the Thirty-second Judicial District, Mary Osswald, Individually and in her official capacity as Agent for Joseph W. Dorsey, John Doe, Individually and in his official capacity, Mary Poe, Individually and in her official capacity.

United States District Court, E. D. Pennsylvania.

September 18, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frances Estabrook Dalton, Philadelphia, Pa., for plaintiff.

G. Guy Smith, Media, Pa., for defendants.


MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

BECHTLE, District Judge.

Plaintiff Donald Edward Allen ("Allen") brought this civil rights action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 alleging that the defendants, while acting under color of state law, deprived him of his Fourteenth Amendment right to due process of law by failing to properly docket and file, pursuant to the Pennsylvania Post Conviction Hearing Act ("PCHA"), 19 Pa.C.S. §...

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