Legal Opinion
Holt v. Sarver
District Court, E.D. Arkansas
Decided June 20, 1969No. PB-69-C-24, 69-C-25 and 69-C-29PublishedCited by 78 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Memorandum Opinion
HENLEY, Chief Judge.
The several petitioners in subject cases are inmates of the Cummins Farm Unit of the Arkansas State Penitentiary located in Lincoln County, Arkansas, some miles south of the City of Pine Bluff and near the towns of Grady, Gould, and Dumas. Petitioners complain that those in charge of the Farm are depriving them of rights protected by the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. Federal jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C.A. § 1343(3) and 42 U.S.C.A. § 1983, is not questioned and is established. Under those sections the Court is authorized to…
2Cases cited10 opinions
- Robinson v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1962
- Jackson v. BishopCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1968
- Jordan v. FitzharrisDistrict Court, N.D. California · 1966
- Talley v. StephensDistrict Court, E.D. Arkansas · 1965
- Kenneth Graham v. J. T. Willingham, Warden, United States Penitentiary, Leavenworth, KansasCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1967
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3Cited by78 opinions
- Hutto v. FinneySupreme Court of the United States · 1979
- Lawrence J. Holt v. Robert Sarver, Commissioner of CorrectionsCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1971
- Holt v. SarverDistrict Court, E.D. Arkansas · 1970
- William Hardin Bogard, Jr. v. Thomas D. Cook, Former Superintendent of the Mississippi State PenitentiaryCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1978
- Alford Lee Cunningham v. Russell Jones, JailerCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1977
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