Legal Opinion

Eddie Adams v. Norman Carlson, Director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons

Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

Decided October 31, 1973No. 73-1268PublishedCited by 137 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

SWYGERT, Chief Judge.

Appellants are inmates of the federal penitentiary at Marion, Illinois. Approximately ten months ago they instituted a class action 1 against Norman Carlson, Director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons, and various officers of the Marion penitentiary. Their complaint alleged that each member of the class was in segregated confinement at Marion, 2 that placement in that status by prison authorities was not attended by procedural safeguards guaranteed by the due process clause of the Fifth Amendment, and that the segregated confinement at issue was in violation of the…

2Cases cited65 opinions

  1. Miranda v. ArizonaSupreme Court of the United States · 1966
  2. Katz v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
  3. Morrissey v. BrewerSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
  4. Mapp v. OhioSupreme Court of the United States · 1961
  5. United States v. WadeSupreme Court of the United States · 1967

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3Cited by137 opinions

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