HOWARD v. KING

No. 83-3154.

707 F.2d 215 (1983)

Clinton C. HOWARD, Jr., and Michael Chapman and Kenneth Robinson, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. John T. KING, Secretary, Department of Corrections, and Ross Maggio, Jr., Warden, Louisiana State Penitentiary, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

June 16, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Clinton C. Howard, pro se.

Michael Chapman, pro se.

Kenneth Robinson, pro se.

J. Marvin Montgomery, Asst. Atty. Gen., Baton Rouge, La., for defendants-appellees.

Before RUBIN, JOHNSON and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM:

Clinton Howard, Michael Chapman, and Kenneth Robinson, inmates of the Louisiana Department of Corrections at Angola, Louisiana, filed a civil rights suit in federal district court alleging violations of their eighth amendment right to be free of cruel and unusual punishment. The complaint alleged, in pertinent part:

For sometime now the two defendants herein, Warden Ross Maggio, and the Director of the Department of Corrections John King, has...

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