Legal Opinion
Anthony King v. Federal Bureau of Prisons and Charles Gilkey
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided July 13, 2005No. 03-2431PublishedCited by 88 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
Anthony King, an inmate at a federal prison in Illinois, brought this suit for damages against both the prison’s warden and the Bureau of Prisons, claiming that they had violated his federal constitutional rights by forbidding him to telephone his stockbroker and to buy a book on computer programming. The district judge, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1915A(a), which requires district judges to screen prisoner suits for merit as soon as they are filed, dismissed the suit as frivolous. § 1915A(b). The joinder of the Bureau of Prisons was indeed frivolous. Although Bivens v. Six…
2Cases cited35 opinions
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- Correctional Services Corp. v. MaleskoSupreme Court of the United States · 2001
- Stanley v. GeorgiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1969
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