Legal Opinion
Holloway v. Lockhart
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided March 5, 1987No. 86-1181PublishedCited by 142 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ARNOLD, Circuit Judge.
Winston Holloway, an inmate of the Arkansas Department of Correction, brought this action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against various officials and employees of the Department. He claimed violations of the Eighth Amendment, as applied to the states by the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The District Court granted summary judgment for defendants. Because there were genuine issues of material fact, we reverse. We also hold invalid a local rule of the District Court which, with regard to “prisoner petitions,” conditions any discovery on first obtaining leave of…
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