Jay Lynott v. J. D. Henderson, Warden, Etc.

GODBOLD, Circuit Judge:

In 1973, appellant Lynott, a prisoner incarcerated in the federal prison at Atlanta, Georgia, sued federal prison officials alleging that they had violated his constitutional rights, largely by discriminatory application of the prison’s visitation regulations in refusing to permit him visits by Nan Born-stein, Jacqueline Miranda, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Dodenhoff, and Carol Roth, among others. He sought various sorts of relief, including declaratory judgments, injunctions, compensatory visits, and damages.

The complaint was initially dismissed without prejudice for failure…