KEMPSKI v. ELLINGSWORTH

Civ. A. No. 82-577-JRR.

633 F.Supp. 685 (1986)

Joseph P. KEMPSKI, Jr., Plaintiff, v. John ELLINGSWORTH, James Lane, James Whitley, Albert Niebert and Ralph Purnell, Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Delaware.

April 29, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph M. Bernstein, Wilmington, Del., for plaintiff.

Regina M. Mullen, Dept. of Justice, Wilmington, Del., for defendants Ellingsworth, Whitley Niebert and Purnell.

Bettina C. Ferguson, Wilmington, Del., for defendant Lane.


ROTH, District Judge.

Plaintiff Joseph P. Kempski, Jr., an inmate at the Sussex Correctional Institute (SCI), filed suit against John C. Ellingsworth, Warden at SCI; James Lane, the SCI Superintendant of Security; and Albert Neibert and Ralph Purnell, both Correctional Officers in the Department of Corrections. Plaintiff charged that he was deprived of his 14th Amendment right to be secure in his person and his 8th Amendment...

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