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STEWART v. THIGPEN

No. 83-4329.

730 F.2d 1002 (1984)

Bennie STEWART, Jr., Individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Morris L. THIGPEN, Commissioner, Mississippi Department of Corrections, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

April 30, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael T. Shareef, N. MS Rural Legal Serv., Walterine Langford, Clarksdale, Miss., for plaintiff-appellant.

W.V. Westbrook, III, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, Miss., for defendants-appellees.

Before POLITZ, RANDALL and JOLLY, Circuit Judges.

E. GRADY JOLLY, Circuit Judge:

Bennie Stewart, former inmate at the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman, brought this section 1983 action for damages against several officers and employees of the penitentiary who allegedly deprived him of his constitutional rights by improperly processing a disciplinary incident in which he was involved in 1980. Stewart also alleged violations of state tort law. The district court granted the defendants' motion for directed...

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