Legal Opinion
Centifanti v. Nix
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided January 20, 1989No. 88-1522PublishedCited by 102 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
COWEN, Circuit Judge.
J. Benedict Centifanti appeals the order of the district court dismissing his complaint for lack of subject matter jurisdiction and denying his motion for leave to amend the complaint. Centifanti filed a complaint under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (1982) against the Chief Justice and the Justices of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania (“the Justices” or “Justice Nix”), following the Court’s denial of his petition for reinstatement to the bar of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. The complaint alleged various constitutional defects in the procedural rules under…
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