Legal Opinion

Smith v. Keohane

District Court, W.D. Oklahoma

Decided December 31, 1979No. CIV-79-914-DPublished

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION AND ORDER

DAUGHERTY, Chief Judge.

Petitioner, an inmate at the Federal Correctional Institution, El Reno, Oklahoma, has filed this action, pro se, denominating it a petition for a writ of habeas corpus by a person attacking a state detainer. The pleadings, however, have made it apparent that the relief sought by petitioner is in fact in the nature of injunctive relief. In accordance with Haines v. Kerner, 404 U.S. 519, 92 S.Ct. 594, 30 L.Ed.2d 652 (1972), requiring liberal construction of pro se pleadings such as these, the petition will be addressed as seeking injunctive relief, and…

2Cases cited13 opinions

  1. Haines v. KernerSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
  2. White v. PearlmanCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1930
  3. Wall v. HudspethCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1940
  4. United States v. George Gordon LiddyCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1975
  5. Vanover v. CoxCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1943

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