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WRIGHT v. STATE OF TENN.

No. 77-1546.

628 F.2d 949 (1980)

John T. WRIGHT, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. STATE OF TENNESSEE et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided August 11, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Houston Gordon, Tual, Gordon, Tual, Forrester & Kuhn, Memphis, Tenn., for plaintiff-appellant.

Brooks McLemore, Atty. Gen. of Tennessee, Robert B. Littleton, Deputy Atty. Gen., Nashville, Tenn., for defendants-appellees.

Before EDWARDS, Chief Judge, WEICK, CELEBREZZE, LIVELY, ENGEL, KEITH, MERRITT, BROWN, KENNEDY, MARTIN and JONES, Circuit Judges.

LIVELY, Circuit Judge.

By a per curiam opinion filed January 24, 1980, a panel of this court affirmed the judgment of the district court dismissing Wright's action. Wright v. Tennessee, 613 F.2d 647 (6th Cir. 1980). Thereafter this court granted Wright's petition for rehearing and the appeal was reheard by the court en banc. The effect of the order granting rehearing en banc was to vacate the panel opinion and...

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