Legal Opinion
Melton v. Beard
Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania
Decided October 2, 2009No. 2143 C.D. 2008PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION BY
President Judge LEADBETTER.
John Diaz and Lamont C. Bullock (collectively “inmates”) appeal pro se from the February 4, 2008 order of the Court of Common Pleas of Huntingdon County (trial court) that sustained the preliminary objections of prison officials Jeffrey A. Beard, Ph.D., Secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, and John Palakovich, former Superintendent at SCI-Smithfield, and dismissed the inmates’ complaint. We affirm.
The background of this case is as follows. In August 2007, the inmates filed a complaint against the prison officials challenging the…
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