Legal Opinion
Elizabeth B. Mayo v. Michael P. Lane
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided January 25, 1989No. 85-3217PublishedCited by 46 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
Elizabeth Mayo appeals from the dismissal of her suit challenging an order by an official of the.Illinois prison system that bars her from visiting any Illinois state *375prison. The suit, brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, alleges that the order deprived her of liberty and property without due process of law, in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment. She sought damages and an injunction. The ground of dismissal was failure to state a claim, Fed.R.Civ.P. 12(b)(6); specifically, the district judge believed that the complaint failed to allege a deprivation of “liberty” or…
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