Legal Opinion
Silo v. City of Philadelphia
District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania
Decided August 29, 1984No. Civ. A. 82-1060PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM
LOUIS H. POLLAK, District Judge.
Jerome Silo sought to commence this action on March 8,1982, by filing a complaint on behalf of himself and a class of inmates of Holmesburg Prison. The gravamen of the complaint is that various officials of the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas conspired to mislay court papers filed by Mr. Silo and his fellow plaintiff prisoners. Along with his complaint, Mr. Silo filed a petition to proceed in forma pauperis. This matter was originally assigned to Judge Ditter, who referred the petition to proceed in forma pauperis to Magistrate Naythons. On July 8,…
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