Legal Opinion
Kantamanto v. King
District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania
Decided July 2, 2009No. Civil Action 06-3371PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM
DuBOIS, District Judge.
I. INTRODUCTION
Plaintiff, Abdur-Rahman Kantamanto, a former prisoner in the Philadelphia Prison System (“PPS”), brings this civil rights action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Defendants were at all times material to this action PPS employees. The gravamen of plaintiffs Complaint is that defendants terminated plaintiff from his job at the Cur-ran-Fromhold Correctional Facility (“CFCF”) law library in violation of his rights under the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution. This Court has jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C. §§ 1331 and…
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