WADE v. GOODWIN

No. 86-2479.

843 F.2d 1150 (1988)

William H. WADE, Appellant, v. Tommy GOODWIN, Director of Arkansas State Police, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided April 8, 1988.

Rehearing Denied May 18, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Howard L. Martin, Cabot, Ark., for appellant.

Theodore Holder, Asst. Atty. Gen., Little Rock, Ark., for appellee.

Before JOHN R. GIBSON and FAGG, Circuit Judges, and HENLEY, Senior Circuit Judge.


HENLEY, Senior Circuit Judge.

William H. Wade appeals from the district court's1 grant of Arkansas State Police Director Tommy Goodwin's motion for summary judgment based on Wade's failure to state a claim in his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 suit. We affirm.

In 1985 at the request of the governor of Arkansas, Goodwin compiled a list of persons identified as "survivalists."2 This "list" was to be circulated...

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