GORHAM v. HUTTO

Nos. 81-6020, 81-6066 and 81-6085.

667 F.2d 1146 (1981)

Henry GORHAM, Appellant, v. Don T. HUTTO, Director of Virginia Department of Corrections; J. P. Mitchell and E. Wright, Individually and in their own capacity, Appellees. Kenneth Richard Lee TAYLOR, Appellant, v. T. D. HUTTO, Director of Corrections, O. Garland, Administrative Assistant and Gene Johnson, Superintendent of Powhatan Correctional Center, State Farm Virginia, Appellees. Thomas PENN, Appellant, v. Terrell Don HUTTO, Director of Virginia's Department of Corrections; M. Bowermaster, Meeting Chairman of Central Classification Board Division of Adult Services; and Gene M. Johnson, Warden of Powhatan Correctional Center, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided December 30, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bruce E. Arkema, Richmond, Va. (Rilee, Canton & Arkema, Richmond, Va., on brief), for appellants.

Burnett Miller, III, Asst. Atty. Gen., Richmond, Va. (Marshall Coleman, Atty. Gen. of Virginia, Richmond, Va., on brief), for appellees.

Before HALL, MURNAGHAN and CHAPMAN, Circuit Judges.


CHAPMAN, Circuit Judge:

Three Virginia prisoners appeal from the dismissal of their pro se complaints alleging civil rights violations. Each of the appellants filed a complaint alleging that his transfer from either the Virginia State Penitentiary or the Powhatan Correctional Center to the Mecklenburg Correctional Center ("M.C.C.") was accomplished without affording him the notice or hearing mandated by the Fourteenth Amendment. The U. S. District Court for...

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