Legal Opinion
Willingham v. Morgan
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided October 13, 1969No. 228PublishedCited by 656 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Marshall
This case raises some important questions about the power of federal officials to have actions brought against them removed to the federal courts. Petitioners Willing-ham and Jarvis are, respectively, the warden and chief medical officer at the United States Penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas. Respondent Morgan was a prisoner at the penitentiary at the time he filed this suit in the Leavenworth County District Court. He alleged in his complaint that petitioners and other, anonymous, defendants had on numerous occasions inoculated him with “a deleterious foreign substance” and had assaulted,…
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