Mason v. Melendez

OPINION AND ORDER

JAMES E. DOYLE, District Judge.

This is a civil rights action based on 42 U.S.C. § 1983 seeking monetary relief from certain members of the Wisconsin Parole Board and others. The matter was tried to a jury in January, 1981. The jury answered affirmatively the single question then remaining in the case: whether each of the three defendants, Melendez, Gergen, and Thomas, as members of a hearing panel of the board, had terminated plaintiff’s parole hearing because the plaintiff had refused to waive (give up or withdraw) his objection to the presence of certain information in his…