Legal Opinion

Pendleton v. Mills

Court of Appeals of Tennessee

Decided September 18, 2001PublishedCited by 137 opinions

1Opinion of the Court 1

OPINION

2Opinion of the Court · KochKoch, J.

in which CAIN and COTTRELL, JJ., joined.

This appeal involves a dispute between two prisoners incarcerated at the River-bend Maximum Security Institution and a corrections officer over the confiscation of a draft note one prisoner desired to pass to the other. One of the prisoners filed a grievance over the confiscation of his note. Before the prison’s grievance procedures had been exhausted, both prisoners filed a pro se 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (1994) action in the Circuit Court for Davidson County, alleging that the corrections officer had violated his oath of office, unlawfully…

3Cases cited97 opinions

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4Cited by137 opinions

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