Legal Opinion
Mattheis v. Hoyt
District Court, W.D. Michigan
Decided November 30, 1955No. Civ. A. 2844PublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
STARR, Chief Judge.
Plaintiff Valorus Joe Mattheis, an inmate of the State prison of southern Michigan, serving a life sentence for first-degree murder, has filed an application in this court for leave to commence and prosecute in forma pauperis a civil action for money damages against Howard W. Hoyt, a former chief of police of the city of Kalamazoo, James A. Tolhuizen, an attorney employed by and who represented the plaintiff in his trial for murder, the Male Publishing Corporation, and 10 other named persons whom he alleges to be the publishers or representatives of the Male magazine in New…
2Cases cited28 opinions
- Screws v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1945
- Tenney v. BrandhoveSupreme Court of the United States · 1951
- Snowden v. HughesSupreme Court of the United States · 1944
- Bottone v. LindsleyCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1948
- Morgan v. SylvesterDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 1954
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3Cited by19 opinions
- Jerome Rosenberg v. Raymond v. MartinCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1973
- Providence Journal Co. v. Federal Bureau of InvestigationDistrict Court, D. Rhode Island · 1978
- Pugliano v. StaziakDistrict Court, W.D. Pennsylvania · 1964
- Robert L. Cardillo v. Doubleday & Co., Inc.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1975
- Simmons Ford, Inc. v. Consumers Union of the United States, Inc.District Court, S.D. New York · 1981
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