Jack Gittlemacker v. Arthur T. Prasse, Commissioner of Prisons of Pa. And Frank C. Johnston, Warden, State Correctional Institution, Dallas, Pa
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
ALDISERT, Circuit Judge.
In this appeal we are confronted with the increasingly recurrent claim that the civil rights of appellant, an inmate of a state penal institution, have been violated by prison officials. The mounting frequency of civil rights claims, under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, in the federal courts cannot escape attention. Nor can the phenomenon that a large percentage of these complaints, drafted pro se by prisoners lacking the perspicacity or restraint of professional draftsmen, are improvidently filed. 1 These eircumstanc es prompt us to explore the issues presented…
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2Cases cited23 opinions
- West Virginia State Board of Education v. BarnetteSupreme Court of the United States · 1943
- Robinson v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1962
- Everson v. Board of Ed. of EwingSupreme Court of the United States · 1947
- Abington School Dist. v. SchemppSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Johnson v. AverySupreme Court of the United States · 1969
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3Cited by360 opinions
- Estelle v. GambleSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
- Garcia Jay Wright v. George Collins, Warden, Maryland Penitentiary Dr. Berry Officer Larry DonnellCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1985
- Robert Spruill v. Frank Gillis Goolier, C.O. McGlaughlin M.D. Brown, P.ACourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 2004
- Shawna Hartmann v. California Department of Corr.Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 2013
- Alexandra Chavarriaga v. State of NJ Department of CorrCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 2015
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