SLEZAK v. EVATT

Nos. 92-6864, 92-6964.

21 F.3d 590 (1994)

Gary SLEZAK, Plaintiff-Appellant, and James Plyler; Donald M. Cogdill, Plaintiffs, v. Parker EVATT, Commissioner, South Carolina Department of Corrections; Kirkland Correctional Institution, in their individual and collective official capacities; Laurie F. Bessinger, Warden, Defendants-Appellees. James PLYLER, Plaintiff-Appellant, and Donald M. Cogdill; Gary Slezak, Plaintiffs, v. Parker EVATT, Commissioner, South Carolina Department of Corrections; Kirkland Correctional Institution, in their individual and collective official capacities; Laurie F. Bessinger, Warden, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided April 14, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: W. Gaston Fairey, Fairey, Parise & Mills, P.A., Columbia, SC, for appellants. E. Meredith Manning, Robinson, McFadden & Moore, P.C., Columbia, SC, for appellees. ON BRIEF: James M. Brailsford, III, Robinson, McFadden & Moore, P.C., Columbia, SC; Barbara M. Bowens, Asst. Gen. Counsel, South Carolina Department of Corrections, Columbia, SC, for appellees.

Before PHILLIPS and MURNAGHAN, Circuit Judges, and BUTZNER, Senior Circuit Judge.


Affirmed by published opinion. Judge PHILLIPS wrote the opinion, in which Judge MURNAGHAN and Senior Judge BUTZNER joined.

OPINION

PHILLIPS, Circuit Judge:

Gary Slezak and James Plyler, inmates in the South Carolina prisons system, appeal the dismissal by summary judgment of their respective claims brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against state prison officials in which they alleged deprivations of various...

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