Legal Opinion
John Calvin Thompson v. L.A. Steele
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided July 11, 1983No. 82-2467PublishedCited by 281 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ALVIN B. RUBIN, Circuit Judge:
Thompson, an inmate at the Walls Unit of the Texas Department of Corrections (TDC) seeks to recover damages from the director of the department of corrections, the warden of the Walls Unit, and a corrections officer for failure to deliver a mail-gram informing him of the death of his father. Concluding that the claim is essentially one of negligence in performing a legal duty and that state law affords an adequate remedy for this tort, we affirm the district court’s dismissal of the suit. 1
The allegations of the pro se complaint do not make it clear whether…
2Cases cited5 opinions
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- Buddy J. Loftin v. Carl Thomas, SheriffCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1982
3Cited by281 opinions
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