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IMAM ALI ABDULLAH AKBAR v. CANNEY

No. 79-3323.

634 F.2d 339 (1980)

IMAM ALI ABDULLAH AKBAR, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. J. P. CANNEY, Head of Classification, Ohio Department of Corrections; and Wallace E. Stein, Head Record Clerk, Southern Ohio Correctional Facility, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided November 5, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Imam Ali Abdullah Akbar, pro se.

William J. Brown, Atty. Gen. of Ohio, Marc S. Kadetz, Columbus, Ohio, for defendants-appellees.

Before KENNEDY and MARTIN, Circuit Judges; PECK, Senior Circuit Judge.

PER CURIAM.

The appellant is a prisoner in the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility at Lucasville. During his imprisonment he has adopted the Sunni Muslim religious faith and has changed his name from Ronald Scheels to Ali Abdullah Akbar. The prison authorities refused to change their records to reflect his new name and he sought relief in the District Court. His pro se civil rights complaint was dismissed on the theory that there was no legal basis to require the...

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