Jacobs v. Whaley

In January 2007, Mickey Allen Jacobs, an incarcerated prison inmate acting pro se, sued Paul Whaley II, the director of classification of the Alabama Department of Corrections ("DOC"), and Edna Harris, a DOC classification specialist, in the Limestone Circuit Court, alleging claims pursuant to both federal and state law and seeking both declaratory and injunctive relief and an award of damages based upon his contentions that the defendants had made false statements about him in connection with prison-reclassification proceedings. Among other things, the plaintiff alleged in his verified…