Earl E. Nickens v. Carl White, Superintendent, M.T.C.M., Dale Riley, Associate Superintendent, Gerald Higgins, Associate Superintendent

McMILLIAN, Circuit Judge.

Appellant Earl E. Nickens, a prisoner at the Missouri State Penitentiary, appeals from a district court 1 order granting summary judgment to appellees, Carl White, superintendent of the Missouri Training Center for Men at Moberly, Missouri, and Dale Riley and Gerald Higgins, associate superintendents of that institution. In granting summary judgment the district court dismissed appellant’s claim that appellees had deprived him of federally protected rights under color of state law in violation of 42 U.S.C. § 1983, when they transferred him from the Training Center at…