Legal Opinion
Melda Turker v. Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided October 5, 1998No. 96-3873PublishedCited by 332 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
NATHANIEL R. JONES, Circuit Judge.
Pro se plaintiff-appellant Melda Turker appeals the district court’s dismissal of her civil rights lawsuit seeking equitable and monetary relief against various state officials on the grounds that the district court misread our decisions in Leaman v. Ohio Dep’t of Mental Retardation and Development Disabilities, 825 F.2d 946 (6th Cir.1987) (en banc) and Thomson v. Harmony, 65 F.3d 1314 (6th Cir.1995), cert. denied, 517 U.S. 1105, 116 S.Ct. 1321, 134 L.Ed.2d 473 (1996). Because neither Lecmcrn nor Thomson bars Turker’s quest for equitable relief in…
2Cases cited16 opinions
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