Legal Opinion
Hamilton v. Edell
District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania
Decided May 30, 1975No. Civ. A. No. 72-2061PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
BRODERICK, District Judge.
This matter comes before the Court on the motion of the defendants Jack Edell and Richard Kluth to set aside a default and the motion of the plaintiff Leonard Hamilton for a default judgment. For the reasons stated herein, we will grant the defendants’ motion to set aside the default and deny the plaintiff’s motion for a default judgment.
On November 20, 1972, the plaintiff, a non-lawyer pro se prisoner litigant, filed a civil rights complaint against the defendants. The plaintiff was incarcerated at Holmesburg Prison in Philadelphia at the time of…
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- Jack Gittlemacker v. Arthur T. Prasse, Commissioner of Prisons of Pa. And Frank C. Johnston, Warden, State Correctional Institution, Dallas, PaCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1970
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