Legal Opinion
Roberts v. Lyons
District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania
Decided March 6, 1990No. Civ. A. No. 88-0033PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
*76MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
EDWIN E. NAYTHONS, United States Magistrate.
In this § 1983 civil rights action brought by an aggrieved prisoner for sexual attacks while an inmate in the city’s prisons, plaintiff’s counsel has produced more unnecessary sanction motions that has resulted in totally obfuscating the real issues to be resolved.
BACKGROUND
On January 5, 1988, the plaintiff filed a declaration in support of his request to proceed in forma pauperis, and that request was granted on January 21, 1988. On June 20, 1988, the law firm of Deckert, Price and Rhodes was appointed to represent the plaintiff…
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