Legal Opinion
O'CONNOR v. Several Unknown Correctional Officers
District Court, E.D. Virginia
Decided October 15, 1981No. Civ. A. 81-0436-RPublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM
MERHIGE, District Judge.
The instant action is one brought by the Administratrix of the estate of a former inmate of the New Kent Correctional Unit against certain officials and employees of the Virginia Department of Corrections. Plaintiff seeks damages under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Jurisdiction is conferred on the court by 28 U.S.C. §§ 1331 and 1343.
Plaintiff alleges that actions by the defendants which resulted in her decedent’s death violated the decedent’s rights to due process and to be free from cruel and unusual punishment under the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments to the…
2Cases cited21 opinions
- Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of NarcoticsSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
- Scheuer v. RhodesSupreme Court of the United States · 1974
- Ex Parte YoungSupreme Court of the United States · 1908
- Edelman v. JordanSupreme Court of the United States · 1974
- Quern v. JordanSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
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3Cited by18 opinions
- Bell v. City of MilwaukeeCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1984
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- Bass v. WallensteinCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1985
- McFadden v. SanchezCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1983
- Sherrod v. BerryDistrict Court, N.D. Illinois · 1985
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