VILLANUEVA v. GEORGE

No. 80-1085.

659 F.2d 851 (1981)

Robert VILLANUEVA, Appellant, v. D. GEORGE, Chief of Custody Officially, Gumbo ACI, Tom Lenninger, Captain of Correctional Officers, Mr. Shannon, Chief of Social Workers, Dave Almond, Correctional Officer and Nick Buttice, Correctional Officer, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided September 16, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Clyde C. Farris, Jr., St. Louis, Mo., made argument for appellant.

Eugene K. Buckley, St. Louis, Mo., made argument for appellee.

Before LAY, Chief Judge, HEANEY, BRIGHT, ROSS, STEPHENSON, HENLEY, McMILLIAN and ARNOLD, Circuit Judges, En banc.


HEANEY, Circuit Judge, with whom LAY, Chief Judge, BRIGHT, STEPHENSON, McMILLIAN and ARNOLD, Circuit Judges, join.

Robert Villanueva brought this action for civil damages under 42 U.S.C. §§ 1983 and 1985, alleging that five correctional officers had deprived him of his civil rights when he was a pretrial detainee at the St. Louis County Adult Correctional Institution (Gumbo). At the close of plaintiff's evidence, the district court granted the defendants...

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