BALLARD v. CARLSON

No. 86-7112.

882 F.2d 93 (1989)

Robert S. BALLARD, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Norman A. CARLSON, Director, Bureau of Prisons; Volunteers of America; Gene Finley, Community Program Manager; Gretchen Crosland, Assistant Program Director; Curtis Barnett, Counselor; Crispus Bosworth, Resident Manager; Ronnie James, Resident Employee; Michael Cohon, Resident Employee; George Stewart, Resident Employee; Friends Medical Science Research; Sharman Seth, Program Director, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided August 10, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Steven H. Goldblatt, Director, Drois K. Bernstein, Maureen F. Del Duca, Supervising Attys., Patricia M. McGillan, Judith L. Wheat, Student Counsel, Appellate Litigation Clinical Program, Georgetown University Law Center, for plaintiff-appellant.

Glenda G. Gordon, Asst. U.S. Atty. (Breckinridge L. Willcox, U.S. Atty., on brief), James J. Nolan, Jr., Robert L. Pierson, Pierson & Pierson, Baltimore, Md., for defendants-appellees.

Before POWELL, Associate Justice (Retired), United States Supreme Court, sitting by designation; WIDENER and CHAPMAN, Circuit Judges.


POWELL, Associate Justice:

Appellant Robert Ballard, formerly a federal prisoner, challenges the dismissal of his suit alleging due process violations by Bureau of Prisons officials and the staff of a Community Treatment Center where he served part of his sentence. We conclude that the district court properly dismissed the suit as to Community Program Manager Gene Finley, and that the court's later dismissal of appellant's suit for failure to follow a court order...

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