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TINKER-BEY v. MEYERS

No. 86-8026.

800 F.2d 710 (1986)

Donald TINKER-BEY, Petitioner, v. Hon. Kenneth J. MEYERS, United States Magistrate, Southern District of Illinois, Benton Division, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided September 11, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donald Tinker-Bey, pro se.

Frederick J. Hess, U.S. Atty., Benton, Ill., for respondent.

Before BAUER, WOOD and POSNER, Circuit Judges.

POSNER, Circuit Judge.

A prisoner at the federal penitentiary in Marion, Illinois has asked us for a writ of mandamus to compel the magistrate who is handling his suit against the United States under the Federal Tort Claims Act, 28 U.S.C. §§ 2671-2680, to proceed with greater dispatch. The suit was filed in July 1984, and the petition for writ of mandamus on June 19, 1986. In response to our inquiry of the magistrate what the status of the suit is, we are...

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