Legal Opinion
Redding v. Pate
District Court, N.D. Illinois
Decided June 18, 1963No. 63 C 189PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WILL, District Judge.
Edward Redding is a prisoner in the Illinois State Penitentiary at Joliet. He filed a complaint in this Court which seeks an injunction and a declaratory judgment that his rights “may have been abrogated under color of State Law” by certain prison officials including the Warden, Frank J. Pate. The complaint also asserts that “jurisdiction is invoked, absent diversity of citizenship or jurisdictional amount, under [the] Doctrine of * * * Ortega v. Ragen, 216 F.2d 561 (7th Cir., 1954.)” 1
Defendant Pate has moved to dismiss the complaint as to him. His motion attacked the…
2Cases cited15 opinions
- Monroe v. PapeSupreme Court of the United States · 1961
- Robinson v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1962
- Rice v. OlsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1945
- Dictograph Products, Inc. v. Federal Trade CommissionSupreme Court of the United States · 1955
- Joseph Ortega v. Joseph E. Ragen, Warden, Illinois State Penitentiary, Joliet, IllinoisCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1954
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3Cited by15 opinions
- Lawrence William Wright v. Daniel McMann as Warden of Clinton State PrisonCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1967
- Carl C. Coppinger v. Gene Townsend, M.D., and Wayne K. PattersonCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1968
- Jordan v. FitzharrisDistrict Court, N.D. California · 1966
- Dearman v. WoodsonCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1970
- Roberts v. WilliamsDistrict Court, N.D. Mississippi · 1969
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