Legal Opinion
Talley v. Stephens
District Court, E.D. Arkansas
Decided November 15, 1965No. PB-65-C-33PublishedCited by 73 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HENLEY, Chief Judge.
This is a suit in equity brought by three inmates of the Arkansas State Penitentiary, namely Winston Talley, William Warren Hash, and Vernon Sloan, against Dan D. Stephens, Superintendent of that institution, for the purpose of restraining respondent from continuing certain prison practices which petitioners claim are violative of rights secured to them by the 14th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. 1 Federal subject matter jurisdiction is to be found in 42 U.S.C.A. § 1983.
Petitioners contend, in essence, that they have been unconstitutionally subjected to…
2Cases cited24 opinions
- Monroe v. PapeSupreme Court of the United States · 1961
- Robinson v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1962
- Ex Parte HullSupreme Court of the United States · 1941
- Cooper v. PateSupreme Court of the United States · 1964
- White v. RagenSupreme Court of the United States · 1945
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3Cited by73 opinions
- Hutto v. FinneySupreme Court of the United States · 1979
- Jackson v. BishopCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1968
- Lawrence William Wright v. Daniel McMann as Warden of Clinton State PrisonCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1967
- Lawrence J. Holt v. Robert Sarver, Commissioner of CorrectionsCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1971
- Holt v. SarverDistrict Court, E.D. Arkansas · 1970
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