Legal Opinion
Micklus, Gregory Bernard v. Carlson, Norman, Director, U. S. Bureau of Prisons Fenton, Charles, Warden, U.S.P. Lewisburg, Pa
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided September 3, 1980No. 79-2234PublishedCited by 71 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
A. LEON HIGGINBOTHAM, Jr., Circuit Judge.
This appeal concerns, among other things, the existence vel non of causes of action for damages by a prisoner sentenced as a “young adult offender” under the Youth Corrections Act (YCA), 18 U.S.C. §§ 5005-5026, becáuse of the government’s failure to provide him with the treatment and segregation required by the YCA. The district court held that no private cause of action was implied in the YCA; that no cause of action for damages existed in the appellant’s favor under the fifth, eighth or fourteenth amendments; that the claims for *230in…
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