Legal Opinion
Woodruff v. City & County of Philadelphia
District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania
Decided December 13, 1965No. Civ. A. No. 39302PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HIGGINBOTHAM, District Judge.
Plaintiff, Donald Lee Woodruff, requests this Court to grant him leave to proceed in forma pauperis1 in his civil rights complaint which alleges that the above named defendants, individually, and jointly as part of a conspiracy, deprived him of certain constitutional rights in derogation of the Civil Rights Act, 42 U.S.C.A. 1983 et seq. He seeks damages in the amount of $500,000.00 and other relief.
A threshold question raised by his petition is whether leave should be granted to file the complaint in forma pauperis against some of the parties, where there is no…
2Cases cited12 opinions
- Monroe v. PapeSupreme Court of the United States · 1961
- Tenney v. BrandhoveSupreme Court of the United States · 1951
- Paul Rodger Weller v. Fred H. Dickson, Andrew Emmitte Pope v. Richard A. McGeeCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1963
- Picking v. Pennsylvania R. Co.Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1945
- Higgins v. SteeleCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1952
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3Cited by5 opinions
- William J. Bauers, Jr. v. Herbert T. Heisel, JrCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1966
- Ambrek v. ClarkDistrict Court, E.D. Pennsylvania · 1968
- United States ex rel. Johnson v. SpecterDistrict Court, E.D. Pennsylvania · 1967
- Woods v. CrumlishDistrict Court, E.D. Pennsylvania · 1966
- William J. Bauers, Jr. v. Herbert T. Heisel, JrCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1966