Legal Opinion
Lewis v. Stephens
Court of Appeals of Texas
Decided November 6, 1997No. 13-97-118-CVPublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION ON MOTION FOR REHEARING
CHAVEZ, Justice.
Appellant, Mark Andrew Lewis (“Lewis”), is a Texas Department of Criminal Justice (“TDCJ”) inmate. Lewis’s suit against various TDCJ personnel was dismissed by the trial court, and he appealed to this Court. We affirmed the trial court in our opinion of August 28, 1997, and we shall overrule Lewis’s motion for rehearing.
Factual summary
Lewis had been punished for violating a TDCJ disciplinary rule. As a consequence, he was removed from the TDCJ’s school system for prisoners. Rather than exhausting administrative remedies through TDCJ, Lewis filed…
2Cases cited1 opinion
3Cited by5 opinions
- Carlos A. Armenta v. TDCJ-CID, Texas Court of Appeals, 6th District (Texarkana)2008
- Carlos A. Armenta v. TDCJ-CID, Texas Court of Appeals, 6th District (Texarkana)2008
- Clyde Nubine v. Javier Herrera, Texas Court of Appeals, 13th District2004
- Jeraldmain Crain v. Warden Thomas J. Prasifka, Etal., Texas Court of Appeals, 13th District2002
- Leo Jessie Smoot III v. CO3 Ms. Forester and Warden T. Morgan, Texas Court of Appeals, 10th District (Waco)1998