WESTON v. BACHMAN

No. 81-2112.

682 F.2d 202 (1982)

Joseph H. WESTON, Appellant, v. Ann BACHMAN; Nancy Brokaw; Jean Hall; Jackie Hall; John Norman Harkey; Circuit Judge Andrew G. Ponder; Leroy Blankenship, Attorney; Circuit Judge H. A. Taylor; Robert Dudley, Associate Justice of Arkansas Supreme Court; Veda M. Gordon, Foreman of Grand Jury; R. Ford Wilkinson; Dr. Robert McChesney; Dr. J. Lynn Mellor; Independence County; Attorney General Steve Clark, as respondent to suits against Arkansas; Conley Byrd; George Smith; Frank Holt; Darrell Hickman; Stephen A. Matthews; Richard H. Wootton; Richard A. Cobb; State of Arkansas; Little Rock, Arkansas, Stake of Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints; John I. Purtle; Richard Mays; and John Stroud, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided July 7, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph H. Weston, pro se.

Bill W. Bristow, P. A., Seay, Bristow & Rees, Jonesboro, Ark., for appellee Andrew Ponder.

Richard L. Smith, Barron, Coleman, Barket & Smith, P. A., Little Rock, Ark., Steve Clark, Atty. Gen. by R. B. Friedlander, Asst. Atty. Gen., Little Rock, Ark., for appellees.

Before HEANEY and ROSS, Circuit Judges, and STEVENS, District Judge.


HEANEY, Circuit Judge.

Joseph H. Weston appeals from a district court order granting the defendants' motions to dismiss his civil rights action brought under 42 U.S.C. §§ 1983, 1985 and 1986. The district court1 held that the plaintiff failed to establish that his constitutional rights were violated, that certain defendants were not acting under color of state law, that certain defendants were immune from suit and, finally, that...

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