WALKER v. LOCKHART

No. 81-1700.

678 F.2d 68 (1982)

James Dean WALKER, Appellant, v. A. L. LOCKHART, Superintendent of the Arkansas Department of Corrections, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided May 19, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bill W. Bristow, Seay & Bristow, Jonesboro, Ark., Oscar Fendler, Blytheville, Ark., Paul Halvonik, Halvonik & Halvonik, Berkeley, Cal., for appellant.

Steve Clark, Atty. Gen. by Theodore Holder, Asst. Atty. Gen., Little Rock, Ark., for appellee.

Thomas M. Carpenter, Lessenberry & Carpenter, Little Rock, Ark., for American Civil Liberties Union.

Before HEANEY, BRIGHT and ROSS, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM.

James Dean Walker, an inmate in the Arkansas prison system, petitions this court for an order enjoining Arkansas prison officials from transferring him from protective custody in the Diagnostic Unit at Pine Bluff, Arkansas, to other conditions of confinement pending this court's ruling on the merits of Walker's appeal in his civil rights action against A. L. Lockhart, Superintendent of the Arkansas Department of Corrections. For the reasons outlined below...

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