Legal Opinion
Issac Lydell Herron v. Jimmy Harrison
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided February 14, 2000No. 98-5726PublishedCited by 475 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
GILMAN, Circuit Judge.
Issac L. Herron, a Tennessee state prisoner, filed a civil rights complaint against various officials of the Cold Creek Correctional Facility and the Tennessee Department of Corrections (collectively, CCCF officials) pursuant to 42 U.S.C. §§ 1983, 1985, and 1986. Herron alleges that those officials violated his civil rights both directly, by burdening the exercise of his constitutional rights, and indirectly, by retaliating against him for exercising those rights. The magistrate judge to whom the case was transferred dismissed Herron’s complaint for failure to…
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