VEGA v. DeROBERTIS

No. 83 C 5426.

598 F.Supp. 501 (1984)

Carlos VEGA, Plaintiff, v. Richard W. DeROBERTIS, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, N.D. Illinois, E.D.

Supplemental Opinion and Order October 3, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

A. Sidney Katz, Eric C. Cohen, and Jacqueline A. Leimer, Chicago, Ill., for plaintiff.

Neil F. Hartigan, Stephen G. Kehoe, Chicago, Ill., for defendants.


MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

SHADUR, District Judge.

Carlos Vega ("Vega"), an inmate confined at Stateville Correctional Center ("Stateville") in Joliet, Illinois, has sued several defendants in their official capacities as officers of the Illinois Department of Corrections ("IDOC"). Vega claims defendants, acting under color of state law, violated his rights under the Fifth, Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments.1 Accordingly he...

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