Legal Opinion
Childs v. Pellegrin
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided June 24, 1987No. 84-5605PublishedCited by 122 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RYAN, Circuit Judge.
Plaintiff Childs, a prisoner in the Tennessee State prison system, appeals the dismissal of his civil rights complaint under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. We reverse.
I
On July 11, 1983, Childs was a prisoner in the Fort Pillow State Prison in Tennessee, assigned to an outdoor work detail. He was standing in the prison yard when that work detail was ordered to report for duty. On this particular day, in keeping with an inmate-initiated work stoppage, no prisoners reported for duty when called. All the prisoners in the prison yard were herded to one corner of the yard and constrained…
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- Meachum v. FanoSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
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3Cited by122 opinions
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- Harvey Lucious Hall v. George Lombardi William Armontrout, Warden Donald ClineCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1993
- Knop v. JohnsonDistrict Court, W.D. Michigan · 1987
- Childs v. PellegrinCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1987
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