Hendrix v. Evans

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

ALLEN SHARP, Chief Judge.

The complaint in this case was originally filed pro se on October 12, 1984, by five inmates incarcerated at the Indiana State Prison in Michigan City, Indiana (ISP). Three of the original plaintiffs were dismissed from this action pursuant to order of this court on March 14, 1986, for failing to appear at a scheduled pretrial conference. The remaining plaintiffs, James Hendrix and Gerald Cobbs, purport to state claims under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and invoke this court’s jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. §§ 1331, 1343(3) and (4).

The plaintiffs have filed a…