AGUILAR v. TEXAS DEPT. OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE

No. 97-40017.

160 F.3d 1052 (1998)

Timothy A. AGUILAR; et al., Plaintiffs, Timothy A. Aguilar, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE, Institutional Division, Company Departments, Unidentified Woods, Sergeant, Coffield Unit; Unidentified Wilbanks, Sergeant, Coffield Unit, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied December 29, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Timothy A. Aguilar, Tennessee Colony, TX, pro se.

Before KING, GARWOOD and HIGGINBOTHAM, Circuit Judges.


PATRICK E. HIGGINBOTHAM, Circuit Judge:

Aguilar and several other Texas state prisoners filed a § 1983 action complaining that prison officials denied them access to the courts, placed them in punitive segregation, confiscated their personal and legal property, and falsely accused them of being prison gang leaders as an excuse for violating their civil rights. The prisoners maintained that these actions resulted from the prison officials' discrimination against...

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