Legal Opinion
Ball v. Woods
District Court, N.D. Alabama
Decided November 4, 1975No. Civ. A. 74-P-1199-W, 75-P-0155-W, 75-P-0549-W and 75-P-2078-WPublishedCited by 31 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OF OPINION
POINTER, District Judge.
Earnest Ball, presently serving a life sentence in Alabama’s Holman prison, has filed in this court three civil actions for damages under 42 U.S.C.A. § 1983. One (CA 74-1199) charges that unreasonable force was used by Tuscaloosa city policemen in effecting his arrest in connection with a domestic squabble, a struggle during which one of the arresting officers was killed by Ball with a shotgun. A second (CA 75-155) asserts that a treating physician gave Ball inadequate treatment for injuries he subsequently sustained during that arrest. His third…
2Cases cited17 opinions
- Braden v. 30th Judicial Circuit Court of KentuckySupreme Court of the United States · 1973
- Boddie v. ConnecticutSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
- Barber v. PageSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
- Price v. JohnstonSupreme Court of the United States · 1948
- United States v. HaymanSupreme Court of the United States · 1952
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3Cited by31 opinions
- Larry Bonner v. City of Prichard, AlabamaCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1981
- Christian v. United StatesDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1978
- Ballard v. SpradleyCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1977
- United States v. Zacarias Moussaoui, A/K/A Shaqil, A/K/A Abu Khalid Al Sahrawi, Center for National Security Studies, Amicus SupportingCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 2004
- Robert Procup v. C. StricklandCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1985
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