Legal Opinion
Tate v. Alexander
District Court, M.D. Tennessee
Decided November 30, 1981No. 79-3031, 79-3308PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM
WISEMAN, District Judge.
Plaintiffs, two former inmates at the Correctional Rehabilitation Center, a state prison located at Nashville, Tennessee, bring this action under 42 U.S.C. §§ 1983 and 1985 alleging that defendants Lamar Alexander (Governor of Tennessee), Harold Bradley (Commissioner of the Tennessee Department of Correction), and James Dickman (Superintendent of the Correctional Rehabilitation Center) individually and collectively violated plaintiffs’ constitutional right to liberty by keeping plaintiffs imprisoned for several months after their sentences had been commuted…
2Cases cited33 opinions
- Monell v. New York City Dept. of Social Servs.Supreme Court of the United States · 1978
- Scheuer v. RhodesSupreme Court of the United States · 1974
- Rizzo v. GoodeSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
- Baker v. McCollanSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
- Monroe v. PapeSupreme Court of the United States · 1961
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3Cited by9 opinions
- Jensen v. ConradDistrict Court, D. South Carolina · 1983
- Melvin Alexander, on Behalf of Himself and Others Similarly Situated v. Lamar Alexander, GovernorCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1983
- Scott v. City of Overland ParkDistrict Court, D. Kansas · 1984
- White v. GerbitzCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1989
- White v. GerbitzCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1989
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