Legal Opinion
Ronald Del Raine v. Norman Carlson, Individually and in His Official Capacity as Director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided October 21, 1987No. 86-1740PublishedCited by 173 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
This extraordinary prisoner-rights case, now 14 years old and still in the pretrial stage with respect to major issues, exhibits the characteristic pathology of contemporary federal litigation, in which substantive and procedural complexity interact to create monumental confusion and delay.
Ronald Del Raine ■ murdered two policemen in the course of a bank robbery and in 1968 was sentenced to 199 years in prison. In 1972, while in the federal prison in Leavenworth, Kansas, Del Raine was placed in solitary confinement without a hearing, as a suspected ringleader of a prison…
2Cases cited37 opinions
- Monell v. New York City Dept. of Social Servs.Supreme Court of the United States · 1978
- Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of NarcoticsSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
- Kentucky v. GrahamSupreme Court of the United States · 1985
- Johnson v. Railway Express Agency, Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1975
- Patsy v. Board of Regents of Fla.Supreme Court of the United States · 1982
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3Cited by173 opinions
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- Friedman v. Estate of PresserCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1991
- Gray v. LackeCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1989
- W. Foster Sellers v. United States of AmericaCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1990
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