Legal Opinion
Dante Todaro v. John M. Bowman, Warden John A. Watkins, Sheriff
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided April 10, 1989No. 88-3576PublishedCited by 103 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
MANSMANN, Circuit Judge.
Dante Todaro, a state prisoner, seeks damages and equitable relief under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (1982) claiming deprivation of his fourteenth amendment guarantee of procedural due process. In his pro se complaint, Todaro alleged that the warden of the county jail and another individual, without benefit of a hearing, imposed a three-day punitive segregation upon him in retaliation for having written critical letters concerning prison conditions. 1
The district court granted summary judgment in favor of the defendants, concluding that, under Marshall v.…
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3Cited by103 opinions
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