Legal Opinion
Kevin Thomas v. Robert A. Farley, Herb Newkirk, and George Bartles
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 4, 1994No. 93-3553PublishedCited by 88 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Chief Judge.
An inmate of an Indiana state prison, Kevin Thomas, filed a complaint under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 claiming that his keepers had inflicted a cruel and unusual punishment upon him by refusing to permit him to attend his mother’s funeral. He appeals from the judgment of the district court dismissing his suit on the ground that the complaint failed to state a claim. Fed.R.Civ.P. 12(b)(6).
According to the complaint, the allegations of which we must treat as true because the defendants have not as yet denied them, defendant Newkirk on November 12, 1992, authorized Thomas to attend…
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