Legal Opinion
Riddle v. Mondragon
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided April 29, 1996No. 93-2225PublishedCited by 254 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HOLLOWAY, Circuit Judge.
Plaintiffs-appellants, who are convicted sex offenders and inmates in the Southern New Mexico Correctional Facility at Las Cruces, New Mexico, appeal the district court’s dismissal of their civil rights claims brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and based on alleged Eighth Amendment, due process, and equal protection violations. We affirm.
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Twenty-one plaintiffs filed virtually identical complaints alleging civil rights, violations by state prison officials, judges, legislators, and other state officials. The district court consolidated all the actions and, thereafter,…
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