MELTON v. BEARD

No. 2143 C.D. 2008.

981 A.2d 361 (2009)

Arnold MELTON, Anthony Locke, John Diaz, Lamont C. Bullock, John Passmore, Tarik Briggs, Joseph Holquin, Justin Lee Clemens, Tyrone Sanders v. Jeffrey A. BEARD, Secretary of the Department of Corrections and John Palakovich, Superintendent of the SCI-Smithfield Appeal of: John Diaz and Lamont C. Bullock.

Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided July 21, 2009.

Publication Ordered October 2, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John Diaz and Lamont C. Bullock, appellants, pro se.

Raymond W. Dorian, Asst. Counsel and Suzanne N. Hueston, Chief Counsel, Camp Hill, for appellee.

BEFORE: LEADBETTER, President Judge, and SIMPSON, Judge, and FRIEDMAN, Senior Judge.


OPINION BY President Judge LEADBETTER.

John Diaz and Lamont C. Bullock (collectively "inmates") appeal pro se from the February 4, 2008 order of the Court of Common Pleas of Huntingdon County (trial court) that sustained the preliminary objections of prison officials Jeffrey A. Beard, Ph.D., Secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, and John Palakovich, former Superintendent at SCI-Smithfield, and dismissed the inmates' complaint. We affirm....

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