EUBANKS v. McCOTTER

No. 85-2566.

802 F.2d 790 (1986)

Wesley EUBANKS, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. O.L. McCOTTER, Director, Texas Department of Corrections, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

October 17, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wesley Eubanks, Albert Aranda, Riley R. Fultz, Ricky Morrow, James X Henry Jones Bankhead, Allan H. Beck, pro se.

Levi Guzman, Angleton, Tex., Miles Cohn, Houston, Tex., for plaintiffs-appellants.

Jim Mattox, Atty. Gen., Gabriel G. Quintanilla, Asst. Atty. Gen., Austin, Tex., for defendants-appellees.

Before GEE, POLITZ and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges.


GEE, Circuit Judge:

The appellants are inmates in Texas prisons. They filed an action alleging that they were deprived of property rights in certain funds without due process of law in violation of the fifth and fourteenth amendments and 42 U.S.C. § 1983. They appended state-law claims against prison officials, alleging various fraudulent and illegal uses of inmate funds and breaches of fiduciary duty. The district court...

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